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The thirty stories in this heart take the reader to landscapes sometimes gritty, sometimes lavish, sometimes otherworldly- but all these places are made familiar by the humanity and grace Smith offers this life's misfits and lost souls. Using prose both lyrical and spare, this heart offers a vision of a world that aches with a harsh and unforgettable beauty.
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"Curtis Smith writes with an unflinching American gaze about characters living on the knife-edge of poverty, heartbreak, and release. His characters are multi-layered, teetering on the edge of possibility and informed by their broken pasts. Dense and lyrical, full of lush sensory descriptions, each subtly rendered, haunting story in this heart left me moved and changed. Curtis Smith is one of my favorite short form writers working today."
Meg Pokrass, Author of First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories