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Features short stories by the winner of the 2020 Blue Light Books prize Uses magical realism to address a common thread of suffering and grief Will be promoted by the Indiana Review



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"These fantastic, angelic stories and fairytales are full of astonishing characters and their longing, love, empathy, and strangeness. Each story is perfectly pitched, takes you away and brings you back slightly changed, better, stronger, listening harder."—Deb Olin Unferth, author of Barn 8



Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Unnatural
Red Ballooning
Oh, Dr. Brown
The Invisible Boy
Aching in the Grass
These Clouds, These Trees, These Fish of the Sea
Dolls
The Long Man
Disappearance
Mailman Fantasies
Winter
The Sadness of Spirits
Uncle Rumpelstiltskin Will Teach You to Dance
The Key Maker and His Kin

The Sadness of Spirits

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    A Paperback / softback by Aimee Pogson

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 22/09/2020
      ISBN13: 9780253050458, 978-0253050458
      ISBN10: 0253050456
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Features short stories by the winner of the 2020 Blue Light Books prize Uses magical realism to address a common thread of suffering and grief Will be promoted by the Indiana Review



      Trade Review

      "These fantastic, angelic stories and fairytales are full of astonishing characters and their longing, love, empathy, and strangeness. Each story is perfectly pitched, takes you away and brings you back slightly changed, better, stronger, listening harder."—Deb Olin Unferth, author of Barn 8



      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Unnatural
      Red Ballooning
      Oh, Dr. Brown
      The Invisible Boy
      Aching in the Grass
      These Clouds, These Trees, These Fish of the Sea
      Dolls
      The Long Man
      Disappearance
      Mailman Fantasies
      Winter
      The Sadness of Spirits
      Uncle Rumpelstiltskin Will Teach You to Dance
      The Key Maker and His Kin

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