Bøger af Susan Henderson

Flash fiction and flash nonfiction anthology created to celebrate 10 years of DimeStories, a venue for 3-minute stories read by the author online, on the radio, and at monthly open mic events in California and New Mexico. Contributors include: Carolyn Allport, Jill Badonsky, Lisa Beebe, Molly Beer, Alex Bosworth, Janet Clare, Dee Cohen, Lawrence Goeckel, Debbie Hagan, Sara Henry, Jennifer Lang, Casandra Lopez, Tara L. Masih, Mary Morris, Susan Paquet, Joel Peckham, Judy Reeves, Ruth Roberts, Jennifer Simpson, Seth Slater, Karen Stromberg, Cynthia Sylvester, AnnaLee Wilson, Ellen Yaffa, and Liz Zuercher

"Elegant and engrossing....Henderson is a talent to watch."--Danielle Trussoni, author of Angelology "This is not a book you'll soon forget."--Sara Gruen, author of Water for ElephantsThe gripping debut novel from Litpark.com founder and Pushcart Prize-nominee Susan Henderson, Up From the Blue is a dazzling tour de force that unfolds against the backdrop of 1970s America--a tumultuous era of desegregation, school busing, and the early rise of modern-day feminism. The story of an imaginative young girl struggling to make sense of her mother's mysterious disappearance, Up From the Blue is enthralling fiction that delves into complex family relationships, in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Katrina Kittle, and Laura Kasischke.

The dead come to me vulnerable, sharing their stories and secrets. . . .Mary Crampton has spent all of her thirty years in Petroleum, a small western town once supported by its grain industry. Living at home, she works as the embalmer in her father's mortuary: an unlikely job that has long marked her as an outsider. Yet, to Mary, there is a satisfying art to positioning and styling each body to capture the essence of a subject's life.Though some townsfolk pretend that the community is thriving, the truth is that Petroleum is crumbling away?a process that began twenty years ago when an accident in the grain elevator killed a beloved high school athlete. The granary closed for good, the train no longer stopped in town, and Robert Golden, the victim's younger brother, was widely blamed for the tragedy and shipped off to live elsewhere. Now, out of the blue, Robert has returned to care for his terminally ill mother. After Mary?reserved, introspective, and deeply lonely?strikes up an unlikely friendship with him, shocking the locals, she finally begins to consider what might happen if she dared to leave Petroleum.Set in America's Great Plains, The Flicker of Old Dreams explores themes of resilience, redemption, and loyalty in prose as lyrical as it is powerful.