How We Disappear: Novella & Stories

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Price
$17.95
Publisher
Press 53
Publish Date
Pages
164
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.5 X 0.38 inches | 0.47 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781950413454

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About the Author

Tara Lynn Masih is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and winner of a Julia Ward Howe Award, a Florida Book Award, a Benjamin Franklin Award, and multiple Foreword Book of the Year Awards. She is the author of My Real Name Is Hanna and editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction. Tara also founded The Best Small Fictions series. She lives in St. Augustine, Florida.

Reviews

In How We Disappear, Masih's characters move out of, into, and through vivid, beautifully rendered landscapes-of the world and of the self. Disappearing acts are urgent and necessary, leading to a deeply interior sense of redemption and connection. A powerful collection. -Claire Boyles, author of Site Fidelity, winner of a 2022 Whiting Award

A virtuoso collection of stories that spin around an axis of loss and rediscovery, where things thought gone forever magically reappear in new guises. Tara Lynn Masih has created a world of stolen girls, magic livestock, ghost towns, enchanted confections, and forbidden love that is underpinned in equal measure by wry humor and peril. These are middle-of-the night stories, secret messages carried on desert winds, spider-web invitations that make you want to stay and dream some more. -Tina May Hall, author of The Snow Collectors and winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize

How We Disappear traffics, beautifully, in the liminal spaces between past and present, imagination and memory. These stories are concise, unsparing, lyrical, always daring. -Michael Parker, O. Henry Award-winning author of Prairie Fever

With sweeping intelligence and effortless command, Masih deftly explores the aching presence of the absent, and the absence of those present, in stories that read like instant classics-timely, and yet, of another time. . . . These are sensual, transporting stories that traverse the globe . . . as they burrow deep and stay within long after we finish reading. -Sara Lippmann, author of Jerks and Doll Palace, Longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award

How We Disappear is stunning and startling, splendid and spectral, in so many ways. Tara Lynn Masih has offered us a mesmerizing collection. -Stacy D. Flood, author of The Salt Fields: A Novella, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist

The breadth and diversity of the stories in How We Disappear illustrate the vast possibilities of human experience. . . . The characters who populate the collection are driven by impulses stronger than their own understandings, and it is often by following those impulses that they find their salvation. The result is a book that explores with insight the role of instinct in human life. How We Disappear reveals the strange animals that we are, and the wondrous beings our minds make of us. -Phong Nguyen, author of The Bronze Drum

The ink is never pale in How We Disappear, and neither are the memories. With each story, I became more and more amazed. Masih is a frotteur in the old sense, rubbing words together to make distant worlds surface and come alive in rich, lush, and engrossing detail. As a writer, I always learn more about writing from Tara Lynn Masih. As a reader, I'm always carried away by her stories. -Grant Faulkner, author of Fissures and The Art of Brevity