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The Clarity of Hunger - by Cheryl Pappas (Paperback)

The Clarity of Hunger - by  Cheryl Pappas (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"This is a sharp, wise, aching beauty of a collection. In these pages, Cheryl Pappas gifts us with afterflowers, an old woman frozen in place, beasts and witches lying in wait, a king who blithely dreams of tulips, volcanoes on Mars, and so much more. These stories are daring, daunting, desire-filled. Pappas brings tremendous skill and range to this captivating debut, landing it with truly one of the most beautiful and profound flash pieces I have ever read." - Kathy Fish, author of <em>Wild Life: Collected Works</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>"</em>This is a superb collection of flash. The writing is fresh, uninhibited, and original. Two standout stories are "Stranger"<em> </em>and "Tending the Elephant"-one realist, the other magical realist. Each has that quality found in works by all good writers: yearning, without sentimentality. The whole collection shines; it's short fiction with depth, which is not an easy thing to do, but Pappas carries it off with aplomb. I think this writer will have a long and successful career." - Peter Jordan, author of <em>Calls to Distant Places</em></p><p><br></p><p>"In these sixteen lovely tales, Cheryl Pappas charms the reader like a totally 21st-century Christina Rossetti. <em>The Clarity of Hunger</em> is a beautiful debut collection: entertaining, moving, and new." - Kate Bernheimer, World Fantasy Award-winning editor and author of <em>How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales and Other Stories</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>"Cheryl Pappas's <em>THE CLARITY OF HUNGER</em> plants astonishment in soil so dark and so rich, it grows as large and bright and dangerous as the very first apple. Reading Pappas's stories is to take a bite and to suddenly know the unknowable so intimately it's like you just took a bite out of your very own heart. If I could, I'd eat these stories all day and then ask for more." - Sabrina Orah Mark, author of <em>Wild Milk</em></p><p><br></p><p>Cheryl Pappas is an American writer living outside Boston. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in Juked</em>, The Chattahoochee Review</em>, Hobart</em>, Ploughshares</em>, SmokeLong Quarterly</em>, and elsewhere.</p>

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