num_pages: 166
description: 2022 Florida Book Award WinnerIn How We Disappear award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers readers transporting and compelling stories of those taken those missing and those neither here nor gonerunaways exiles wanderers ghosts even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie. From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier from rural Long Island to postwar Belgium Masihs characters are diverse in identity and circumstance defying the burden of erasure by disappearing into or emerging from physical and emotional landscapes. Described as masterful and as striking and resonant (Publishers Weekly) Masihs fiction crossing boundaries between historical and contemporary sparks with awareness that nothing and no one is ever gone for goodand that the wilderness is never quite behind us. Masihs collection is a beautiful and carefully written work that deftly searches below the surface for the personal feelings of the diverse characters and blends them with the oftentimes stunning outside world. . . . Luminous . . .Kirkus ReviewsA virtuoso collection of stories that spin around an axis of loss and rediscovery.Tina May Hall author of The Snow Collectors and winner of the Drue Heinz Literature PrizeWith 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.Sara Lippmann author of Jerks and Doll Palace Longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award These stories are concise unsparing lyrical always daring.Michael Parker O. Henry Awardwinning author of Prairie Fever
language: English
title: How We Disappear: Novella & Stories
publisher: Press 53