Show Her a Flower, a Bird, a Shadow

Winner of the Foreword Indies Book of the Year in Literary Fiction (2017). In this striking debut of vivid characters and piercing situations, nothing is too insignificant for Pursell's imagination--a wren on a branch, a hole in a sock, ginger tea-- and nothing too dangerous-- a girl hit by a stone, a mother and daughter struggling, a lip plump with blood. Intense insights are captured in superb concentrations of prose, with lyricism and flashes of brilliant detail applied to the small wonders of the world.