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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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What Shines from It

What Shines from It

Rauch, Sara
Current, Alternating

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1946580112
ISBN13: 9781946580115
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Feb 8 2020
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The eleven stories in Sara Rauch's What Shines from It are rife with the physical and psychic wounds of everyday life. In Beholden, girl meets boy meets the unsettled spirits of post-9/11 New York City, but her future can't hold them all. In Kitten, a struggling veteran and his wife argue over adopting an abandoned kitten, deepening their financial and emotional rifts. In Abandon, a ghost-baby ravages a woman's body following a late-term miscarriage, marring her chances for new love. And in Kintsukuroi, a married potter falls for a married geologist and discovers the luminosity of being broken.What Shines from It is populated by women on the verge of transcendence-brimming with anger and love-and working-class artists haunted by the ghosts of their desires. Abiding by a distinctly guarded New England sensibility, these stories inhabit the borderlands of long-established cities, where humans are still learning to embrace the natural world. Subtly exploring sexualities, relationships, birth and rebirth, identity, ghosts, and longing, Rauch searches for the places where our protective shells are cracked and, in spare, poetic language, limns those edges of loneliness and loss with light.

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