Acquainted with Squalor
Subtitle: short stories
By: by Nath Jones ; edited by Sally Arteseros
Contributors: Arteseros, Sally
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Life List Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781937316150; 9781481866736
Subjects: Short stories; Nouvelles
Description: Acquainted with Squalor delivers astonishing power of body-and-soul. Meteors fall, an old neighbor tosses an infrared Phoenix beacon into a cup of loose change, and a woman on the phone with a friend mentions nothing about her eviction notice. These nine stories nourish our sense of wonder and acknowledge our deepest despair. Who has the endearing audacity to call a lower "Governor General"? Who will sit down together on a hot day to eat frozen blueberries on a country lawn? Nath Jones captures what it means for us to be at home and still awash in the world.