The Era of Lanterns and Bells
by Ann Tinkham
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Pub Date Sep 19 2017 | Archive Date Nov 30 2018
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Description
In The Era of Lanterns and Bells, a lighthouse is haunted by the memory of lighthouse keepers, a train operator is forever changed by a subway suicide, a journalist befriends a homeless virtuoso, an orca trainer believes she's a whale, an aerialist runs away from the circus, and a Golden Gate Bridge jumper saves lives with fortune cookies. An obese woman is rescued from being a shut-in, a woman discovers that her favorite childhood pond is polluted and cancer-causing, a woman falls in love with a bipolar man in Jamaica, and an arborist writes love letters from trees. These quirky and darkly comic stories entertain while posing essential questions about truth, compassion, and humanity.
The Era of Lanterns and Bells is available for purchase in print and ebook formats.
Advance Praise
"Your work impressed the editorial staff with its skillfully written funny, irreverent voice."-- The Editors, Missouri Review
"These stories are very well-written, very nicely plotted, and remarkably clever." -- Beth Adams, Editor, Guideposts
"I really enjoyed this--the quiet artistic rage of it and the absolutely fantastic wit." --Roxane Gay, PANK
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780999015704 |
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Mike D, Reviewer
Every so often (even despite personal reservations) you take a chance on an unknown author and it turns out to be pure magic. Like this. What a lovely collection of short stories. And magic isn’t even that far off as descriptions go, because most of the veer into the magical realism territory. The lighthouse on the cover (haunted in its own way)…it hates the sea, because the sea has made ghosts out of the men who took care of it. See, I love these kinds of stories. Something ordinary made extraordinary through the power of words and imagination. Every one of these is an original and exciting tale of creatures bipedal, quadrupedal and aquatic that not only subvert expectations, but also leave the reader with something akin to, dare I say it, optimism or at the very least quiet awe. This collection has that feeling of looking down at the puddles and finding the reflections of the stars. And charm. It might be the most charming and lovey book I’ve read recently. Beyond mere enjoyment, safe to say I loved this book. It’s brief, maybe 160 minutes for 196 pages, one evening very well spent. For fans of whimsical delights and flights of fancy. Recommended. Thanks Netgalley.
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