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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn engaging collection that takes on the love and loneliness lurking in the bright lights and shadowed corners of the everyday.
* Kirkus Reviews *
The ever-present, everyday magic in Stalcup's debut collection overlays the mundane world like mist and blurs the lines between the prosaic and the fantastic, in stories that examine life and loss. . . Stalcup's fabulist prose-poetry takes readers on tours of today's dreams and Nikola Tesla's memories, her writing surreal but solid enough for the reader to lean against.
* Publishers Weekly *
In Erin Stalcup's And Yet It Moves, science, physics, and electricity (the reliably immutable phenomena that connect our universe) are the background for short stories of startling human disconnection and alienation . . . The beauty in each story is that, though alienation has become the default in each character's life, the desire to connect is ever present, like a beating heart, no matter how bruised.
* ForeWord Reviews *
Often, Stalcup succeeds at making those invisible visible . . . by reminding readers of the inherent humanity in persons, objects, places, animals, or—yes—natural phenomena. . . . Again and again, these stories show the imperfection of human connection, that invisible and yet visible forces at work in our lives.
* Diagram *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Gravity
In the Heart of the Heart of the Empire
Keen
With Strangers
Ghost Writer
Not Long for this World
Ochre Is the Color of Deserts and Dried Blood
Brightest Corners
Why Things Fall
I. Newton
II. Einstein
III. Tesla
IV. Galileo, Hawking, Rabinowitz
All Those Stairs
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