From an acclaimed and award-winning young writer comes an intensely
moving debut collection set in the eye of life's storms. In Corpus
Christi, Texas--a town often hit by hurricanes-- parents, children,
and lovers come together and fall apart, bonded and battered by
memories of loss that they feel as acutely as physical pain.
A car accident joins strangers linked by an intimate knowledge of
madness. A teenage boy remembers his father's act of sudden and
self-righteous violence. A "hurricane party" reunites a couple whom
tragedy parted. And, in an unforgettable three-story cycle, an
illness sets in profound relief a man's relationship with his
mother and the odd, shifting fidelity of truth to love.
Told in fresh, lyrical voices and taut, inventive styles, these
narratives explore the complex volatility of love and intimacy,
sorrow and renewal--and expose how often these experiences feel
like the opposite of themselves. From the woman whose young son's
uncanny rapport with snakes illuminates her own missed
opportunities to the man confronting his wife and her lover in a
house full of illegal exotic birds, all the characters here face
moments of profound decision and recognition in which no choice is
clearly or completely right.
Writing with tough humor, deep humanity, and a keen eye for the
natural environment, Bret Anthony Johnston creates a world where
where cataclysmic events cut people loose from their "regular
lives, floating and spiraling away from where we had been the day
before." Corpus Christi is a extraordinarily ambitious debut. It
marks the arrival of an important, exquisitely talented voice to
American fiction.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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