An adventurous thought journey of a former Seventh Day Adventist-turned-Episcopalian’s pivotal musings on faith, family, and survival. In this collection of essays, stories, and reports, essayist and fiction writer Matthew Vollmer treats his latest assemblage like an astronomical map, charting out the steps from his past to trace the trajectories of things to come. Vollmer […]
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"I'd lived with misunderstanding for so long, I'd stopped even viewing it as bad. It was just there, embedded in everything I loved."
AFTERPARTIES is a short story collection of Cambodian Americans in California. Many of the main charac...
4.5 stars. I first heard an excerpt of this book at a virtual reading, ready by K-Ming Chang herself, when the book first came out in 2020. What a stunner; every sentence is full of poetry and new associations that make my mind spin and ...
4.5 / Feels and sounds like spoken word poetry in my head; it would be an honor to hear this work at a slam.
Favorite poem: “was it good for you/like blood on dry ground”
