American Grief in Four Stages: Stories
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Sadie Hoagland is an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the former editor of Quarterly West. Her work has appeared in Alice Blue Review, The Black Herald, Mikrokosmos Journal, South Dakota Review, Sakura Review, Grist, Oyez Review, Passages North, Five Points, The Fabulist, and elsewhere. Learn more at sadiehoagland.com.
"A captivating debut collection probes the trauma of being human. . . . assured, haunting, and deeply empathetic."
Kirkus (starred review)
"Sadie Hoagland's stories are hard and bright as the twenty-first century, but with reflections that radiate into subtle chiaroscuro. She's a startlingly fresh new writer; American Grief in Four Stages is a debut that will be remembered."
Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls' Rising
"This terrifying, brave collection takes the sting out of what happens when the worst has already occurred. Even in their loss, its broken characters find ways to try and explain the unexplainable to themselves."
Foreword Reviews
"Terrifyingly true and dangerously perceptive, Sadie Hoagland's provocative fictions deliver us to moments of maximum chaos."
Melanie Rae Thon, author of Silence and Song
"As riveting as short fiction gets."
Jacob M. Appel, author of The Amazing Mr. Morality
