The Origin of Stars and Other Stories (Small Press Distribution (All Titles))
Katharine Haake's Origin of Stars is as beautiful and transcendent as the Milky Way. At the center of each story is the heartbreaking vulnerability of her characters, discovering the most important reason for being alive as the world crashes in around us--to connect with each other, as Katharine Haake connects with us. --Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief and Animal Crackers, recipient of the 2009 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editorial ExcellenceKatharine Haake's beautiful stories are shockingly original. I read with the sense that I had entered a brand new terrain of the imagination. Her characters are revealed with a deep compassion, and the intimate worlds they inhabit are both familiar and wonderfully strange. --Jane McCafferty, author of One Heart and Thank You For the MusicThese are wonderful, wonderful stories full of dreamy mystery and sharp humor. They twist and turn in ways that will make you gasp--and the writing will do the same thing, make you want to call up a friend and tell her about your amazing good fortune in finding and reading such wonderful stories from such a writer. This collection is what it's all about.  ----Sharman Russell, author of Standing in the Light and Hunger