We imagined it was rain /
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 t...
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Spartanburg, South Carolina :
Hub City Press,
[2021].
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| 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 and 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 window pane. We Imagined It Was Rain was the winner of our 2020 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize. |
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| Physical Description: | 195 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781938235887 1938235886 |