We imagined it was rain / Andrew Siegrist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siegrist, Andrew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tennessee--Fiction.

Tennessee.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

195 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Spartanburg, SC : Hub City Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Hailed by ZZ Packer as "a master of tone, detail, and imagery", Andrew Siegrist's debut collection We Imagined It Was Rain is a love song to Tennessee. These loosely connected stories are imbued with tenderness, seriousness, and an understanding of the human spirit. A young man moves to the mountains and builds an heirloom chest in the wake of his son's death; a town official must make the decision to execute a circus elephant; two siblings help their father commit suicide; a preacher picks up the pieces of his ruined church, and his marriage, after a devasting flood; locals share stories of the girl with eyelashes so long she can braid them; a lonely man uses rain to paint. A striking and thoughtful debut, Siegrist demonstrates careful attention to the smallest moments, to the rain on a windowpane. We Imagined It Was Rain was the winner of our 2020 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Whittled Bone

Satellites

The Sound of a Father

Nothing for the Journey

Heirloom

Stormlight

Shinebone

Rainpainting

Elephants

Jaima

Beneath Dark Water

Seasons

Shouting Down the Preacher

How to Hang a Circus Elephant

Dryland.

Notes:

C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize 2020

ISBN:

9781938235887

1938235886

OCLC:

1250432071