This startlingly fresh collection of short fiction explores the lives of people who are struggling with the destructive potential of their pasts. In these haunting and unsettling stories, Nolan draws her characters to the edge of pain or face to face with horror. Despite the world of brutality, deceit and lunacy in which Nolan's characters live, these are not tragic storie This startlingly fresh collection of short fiction explores the lives of people who are struggling with the destructive potential of their pasts. In these haunting and unsettling stories, Nolan draws her characters to the edge of pain or face to face with horror. Despite the world of brutality, deceit and lunacy in which Nolan's characters live, these are not tragic stories about victims. Instead, Nolan embraces human nature's survivalist impulse and the restorative effect of memory, fantasy and dreams.
Broken Windows: Stories
This startlingly fresh collection of short fiction explores the lives of people who are struggling with the destructive potential of their pasts. In these haunting and unsettling stories, Nolan draws her characters to the edge of pain or face to face with horror. Despite the world of brutality, deceit and lunacy in which Nolan's characters live, these are not tragic storie This startlingly fresh collection of short fiction explores the lives of people who are struggling with the destructive potential of their pasts. In these haunting and unsettling stories, Nolan draws her characters to the edge of pain or face to face with horror. Despite the world of brutality, deceit and lunacy in which Nolan's characters live, these are not tragic stories about victims. Instead, Nolan embraces human nature's survivalist impulse and the restorative effect of memory, fantasy and dreams.
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Michelle –
Each chapter is a short story, unrelated to the next. That's what I like about it right now. Short stories are better for my schedule, because I can come full circle in a half hour, with closer, rather than take a week to finish a story... These stories are bold, and crazy, and slightly depressing. But as you read through the eyes of each character their insanity becomes normal to you throughout the story. Each chapter is a short story, unrelated to the next. That's what I like about it right now. Short stories are better for my schedule, because I can come full circle in a half hour, with closer, rather than take a week to finish a story... These stories are bold, and crazy, and slightly depressing. But as you read through the eyes of each character their insanity becomes normal to you throughout the story.
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Mook –