Every Single Bone in My Brain - Softcover

Tillman, Aaron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998966703 ISBN 13: 9780998966700

Publisher: Braddock Avenue Books, 2017

Synopsis

Fiction. Poetry. EVERY SINGLE BONE IN MY BRAIN is an enthralling debut story collection—by turns electric and thoughtful, comic and wise. A young music journalist tries to avoid becoming a band groupie, only to discover she has far more to offer to their music than she realized. A Jewish teenager gets involved with an alluring Mormon woman who presents an alternative to life with his dysfunctional family. And in the title story, a man whose condition—his body is a conduit for enough electricity to kill a person—forces him to live and work in isolation, uses the internet to form a relationship with a similarly reclusive woman; one that may bring them both joy or end in tragedy. Aaron Tillman's beautiful prose and sense of fun make him an essential new voice in contemporary short fiction.

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About the Author

Aaron Tillman is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Newbury College. He was a First-Place Winner in Glimmer Train Stories' Short-Story Award for New Writers and won First Prize in the Nancy Potter Short Story Contest at University of Rhode Island. His stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, The Madison Review, Arcadia Magazine, The Carolina Quarterly, great weather for MEDIA, Sou'wester, The Tishman Review, upstreet, Burrow Press Review,The Writer's Chronicle, Studies in American Humor, Symbolism, The CEA Critic, and The Intersection of Fantasy and Native America (Mythopoeic 2009).

Review

These are terrific stories--inventive, brainy, and illuminating. Every Single Bone in My Brain is a collection full of surprise turns, sheer talent, and wild, affecting moments. --Joan Silber, author of Fools

Aaron Tillman's Every Single Bone in My Brain picks up where Malamud and Roth leave off, opening a new chapter in Jewish-American fiction. From a couple who try to conceal the birth of their critically-ill newborn from their parents to the romantic adventures of a man whose body carries a natural electric charge, Tillman's stories are distinguished by wit and mystery. Throughout this vibrant, vivid work, we are constantly reminded: These aren't your grandfather's Jews anymore. And yet, to a degree they are still as tormented and conflicted as if they stepped off the pages of a novel by Bellow or even Kafka. Surely, this is a collection not to be missed. --Jacob M. Appel, author of The Topless Widow of Herkimer Street

I'm always impressed by the sheer wizardry of writers who can make people sound like people on the page. Tillman creates people who not only sound like people they ARE people, come to life, flesh and blood and bone; all humanity and human foible burns right through this book. --Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World and Other Stories

About this edition

• Publisher: Braddock Avenue Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0998966703
• ISBN 13: 9780998966700
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190