Thank Your Lucky Stars
Sherrie Flick
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Full of wit and humor, readers will find themselves immersed in big worlds contained in short narratives. From a woman who gets more than what she bargained for to a cowboy down on his luck, these complex stories serve up love and loss, longing and heartbreak, and cruelty and tenderness in poetic images and the most satisfying of moments.
Product Details
Price
$17.95
$16.69
Publisher
Autumn House Press
Publish Date
September 04, 2018
Pages
200
Dimensions
5.3 X 7.9 X 0.6 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781938769351
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About the Author
SHERRIE FLICK is the author of the novel Reconsidering Happiness, the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting, and the short story collection Whiskey, Etc., winner of the Foreword INDIES bronze prize and named one of Entropy's Best Fiction Books of 2016. Her fiction has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, SmokeLong Quarterly, W.W. Norton's Flash Fiction Forward, New Sudden Fiction, and New Micro. She has received grants and fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Heinz Endowments, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Ucross, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She works as a freelance writer and teaches in the Food Studies and MFA programs at Chatham University.
Reviews
In Thank Your Lucky Stars, Flick has arranged 50 stories of varying length--the shortest a paragraph, the longest 21 pages--into four numbered sections. The settings are often suburban towns in the West or Midwest, and Flick uses crickets, birdbaths with calm water, and deer heads as recurrent images throughout to underscore the agonizing quiet of such towns. Most of the stories are about love, but more specifically, finding someone to make a home with. Domestic spaces are the stage, and everyday objects, like two tin coffee cups, resonate with meaning. http: //www.smokelong.com/book-review-thank-your-lucky-stars-by-sherrie-flick/--Cheryl Pappas "SmokeLong Quarterly" (8/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)
These stories target a range of ages with something in each that many people have faced at one point or another. There's a little something unexpected in each of Flick's stories that remind us to 'Thank [Our] Lucky Stars' for the good present in any situation. https: //medium.com/anomalyblog/sherrie-flicks-thank-your-lucky-stars-for-more-hope-d93f97747f8a--Cheyenne Heckermann "Anomaly" (9/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)
Many of the stories are character-driven instead of action-driven. These aren't stories about world-changing events, but more about individual people coming to a self-realization. The interesting concept with these stories is that these acts of self-reflection feel just as important as the high-tension dramatic events seen in other popular novels and movies. https: //medium.com/the-coil/book-review-sherrie-flick-thank-your-lucky-stars-sean-faulk-61037c693888--Sean Faulk "The Coil" (9/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)
These stories target a range of ages with something in each that many people have faced at one point or another. There's a little something unexpected in each of Flick's stories that remind us to 'Thank [Our] Lucky Stars' for the good present in any situation. https: //medium.com/anomalyblog/sherrie-flicks-thank-your-lucky-stars-for-more-hope-d93f97747f8a--Cheyenne Heckermann "Anomaly" (9/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)
Many of the stories are character-driven instead of action-driven. These aren't stories about world-changing events, but more about individual people coming to a self-realization. The interesting concept with these stories is that these acts of self-reflection feel just as important as the high-tension dramatic events seen in other popular novels and movies. https: //medium.com/the-coil/book-review-sherrie-flick-thank-your-lucky-stars-sean-faulk-61037c693888--Sean Faulk "The Coil" (9/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)
