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Love Breaks My Bones and I Laugh
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.00
Publisher: Pumpernickel House Publishing
Published: Mar 9 2023
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
The daughter of the Last American Cowboy is tasked with putting her late-father's ashes to rest, but has plans of her own. A woman wakes up after the first night with her lover to discover she's birthed a pile of maggots. The ghost of Hans Christian Andersen comforts a young girl. These short stories are haunted by the destructive, often cyclically so, power of love and fantasy.
Fans of Johnson's work, namely her previous collection I'll Tell You a Love Story (Bridge Eight, 2020), might notice an anger in these stories that felt more subdued before. There is a pain that still burns-the hand pressed to the stove, a flash in the sear that has not subsided. A kind of
frenetic energy carries the reader through these pieces- Kym Cunninham, author of NEW MYTHOLOGIES and DIFFICULTY SWALLOWING
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