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These fifteen linked tales confront readers with dark theological complexities, fractured marriages, and mercurial temptations: a husband discovers the decaying corpse of his wife's lover in their bed; an enigmatic deaf man becomes the catalyst in the destruction of his church; a child's perspective on life is altered after the attempted murder of a loved one; an embarrassed teenager is forced to attend a pool party with her quadriplegic mother; the hole in a young boy's heart is magically sealed when he falls in love for the first time.
These fifteen linked tales confront readers with dark theological complexities, fractured marriages, and mercurial temptations: a husband discovers the decaying corpse of his wife's lover in their bed; an enigmatic deaf man becomes the catalyst in the destruction of his church; a child's perspective on life is altered after the attempted murder of a loved one; an embarrassed teenager is forced to attend a pool party with her quadriplegic mother; the hole in a young boy's heart is magically sealed when he falls in love for the first time.
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"A brilliant new voice in American fiction has arrived. Bright, sharp, startling, utterly distinctive, passionate, and secretive, Quatro's stories are missives from deep within the landscape of American womanhood.... She has earned a place alongside Amy Hempel, Lydia Davis, and Alice Munro."
David Means
"Fasten your seat belt: Jamie Quatro is a writer of great talent who knows how to take a dark turn without ever tapping the brakes and then bring you back into daylight with breathtaking precision. These amazing stories explore the human boundaries between the physical world and the spiritual-lust, betrayal, and loss in perfect balance with love, redemption, and grace."
Jill McCorkle
"Passionate, sensuous, savagely intense, and remarkable [stories of the American South] like some franker, modernized Flannery O'Connor..."
The New Yorker