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We Imagined It Was Rain: Stories
Andrew Siegrist
We Imagined It Was Rain: Stories
Andrew Siegrist
Hailed by ZZ Packer as "a master of tone, detail, and imagery," Andrew Siegris's debut collection, We Imagined It Was Rain, is a love song to Tennessee. These loosely connected stories are imbued with tenderness, seriousness, and a deep understanding of the human spirit. A young man moves to the mountains and builds an heirloom chest in the wake of his son's death; a town official must make the decision to execute a circus elephant; two siblings help their father commit suicide; a preacher picks up the pieces of his ruined church, and his marriage, after a devastating flood; locals share stories of the girl with eyelashes so long she can braid them. Siegrist demonstrates careful attention to the smallest moments, to the rain on a windowpane, to individual mementos passed down through generations, in this far-reaching and thoughtful collection.
We Imagined It Was Rain is the winner of our 2020 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize.
196 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 25, 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9781938235887 |
Publishers | Hub City Press |
Pages | 196 |
Dimensions | 139 × 215 × 20 mm · 294 g |
Language | English |
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