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Synopsis
A collection of thirty short fictions by Ethel Rohan
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About the Author
Raised in Ireland, Ethel Rohan now lives in San Francisco. Her stories have or will appear in Guernica, Gargoyle, Potomac Review, Southeast Review Online, and Los Angeles Review, among many others. Her debut story collection released from Dark Sky Books, December 2010. A second story collection, Hard to Say, is forthcoming in 2011 from PANK. She blogs at ethelrohan.com.
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In this stripped-raw debut collection, Ethel Rohan's thirty stories swell with broken, incomplete people yearning to be whole. Through tight language and searing scenarios, Rohan brings to life a plethora of characters -- exposed, vulnerable souls who are achingly human.
"Filled with spot-on details and deceptively simple sentences, Rohan's stories are, more than anything else, about loss -- of children, both born and never conceived, spouses and lovers, parents, body parts, happiness, dreams, self -- and about the odd, endearing, and desperate ways that people fill the void or ignore it: by befriending balloons and eating too many nuts, by inventing companions and alter-egos that become more real to them than reality. They may seek complicity in these imagined worlds, may even occasionally get it -- a husband coddles his wife's doll, a massage therapist massages a 'ghost' limb -- but, most often, that complicity is sought only from us, the readers, and we are fortunate, indeed, to have been invited." -- Lori Ostlund, author of The Bigness of the World
"Cut Through the Bone is full of phantom limbs and phantom lives. These stories create a sense of loss in the reader, an ache, but thankfully they avoid dull cynicism. Instead, they bear witness to the difficulty of living for oneself while sacrificing for others. In one story a woman pleads, 'I'm here though? Tell me I'm here.' Ethel Rohan's stories are like testaments to all the women and men who've asked the same thing of the world. Those folks remain unseen to most, but this truly talented artist isn't blind. Ethel Rohan is one hell of a writer." -- Victor LaValle, author of Big Machine
"Cut Through the Bone is full of phantom limbs and phantom lives. These stories create a sense of loss in the reader, an ache, but thankfully they avoid dull cynicism. Instead, they bear witness to the difficulty of living for oneself while sacrificing for others. In one story a woman pleads, 'I'm here though? Tell me I'm here.' Ethel Rohan's stories are like testaments to all the women and men who've asked the same thing of the world. Those folks remain unseen to most, but this truly talented artist isn't blind. Ethel Rohan is one hell of a writer." -- Victor LaValle, author of Big Machine
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