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Sinking Bell

By Bojan Louis

Sinking Bell Essays & Short Stories

Sinking Bell

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Potent stories that offer a forceful vision of contemporary Navajo life, by an American Book Award winner An ex-con hired to fix up a school bus for a couple living off the grid in the desert finds himself in the middle of their tattered relationship. An electrician's plan to take his young nephew on a hike in the mountains, as a break from the motel room where they live, goes awry thanks to an untrustworthy new coworker. A night custodian makes the mistake of revealing too much about his work at a medical research facility to a girl who shares his passion for death metal. A relapsing addict struggles to square his desire for a white woman he meets in a writing class with family expectations and traditions. Set in and around Flagstaff, the stories in Sinking Bell depict violent collisions of love, cultures, and racism. In his gritty and searching fiction debut, Bojan Louis draws empathetic portraits of day laborers, metalheads, motel managers, aspiring writers and musicians, construction workers, people passing through with the hope of something better somewhere else. His characters strain to temper predatory or self-destructive impulses; they raise families, choose families, and abandon families; they endeavor to end cycles of abuse and remake themselves anew.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2022-09-27
Publication Date:
2022-09-27
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1644452030
ISBN13:
9781644452035
Weight:
238 g
Height:
143 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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