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description: With raw lyrical ferocity All the Comfort Sin Can Provide delves into the beguiling salve that sin can promisetracing those hidden places most of us are afraid to acknowledge. In this collection of brutally unsentimental short stories Grant Faulkner chronicles dreamers addicts and lost souls who have trusted too much in wayward love the perilous balm of substances or the unchecked hungers of others but who are determined to find salvation in their odd definitions of transcendence.Taking us from hot Arizona highways to cold Iowa hotel rooms from the freedoms of the backwoods of New Mexico to the damnations of slick New York City law firms Faulkner creates a shard-sharp mosaic of desire that careens off the pagehonest cutting and wise.PRAISESomewhere between sinister and gleeful the characters in Grant Faulkners story collection All the Comfort Sin Can Provide blow open pleasureguilty pleasure unapologetic pleasure accidental pleasure repressed pleasure. Really at the heart of all identity is the reach for pleasure and then what actually comes all those moments of slippage where we do the wrong thing take a ridiculous risk double down on failure land in a forsaken place slip the mainstream of things enough to change and become. These characters exude beauty from their flaws. These stories are lit.Lidia YuknavitchFull of bad behavior and a ferocious desire for escape All the Comfort Sin Can Provide is a catalog of longing. Faulkners arresting characters broadcast their worst decisions from grimy motel rooms greasy kitchens and sprawling American highways each of them hellbent on the promise of something better.Kimberly King ParsonsAll the Comfort Sin Can Provide delivers on the promise of Grant Faulkners daring debut with a follow-up collection of stories that excavates possibility salvation and the deceptive comforts one finds in so many pleasures.Adam Johnson
language: English
title: All the Comfort Sin Can Provide
publisher: Black Lawrence Press