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Praying drunk : stories, questions / Kyle Minor.

by Minor, Kyle.

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Sarabande Books, c2014.

9781936747634 (trade pbk.)

1936747634 (trade pbk.)

"These stories are meant to be read in order"--T.p. verso.

"The characters in 'Praying Drunk' speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom counter while his son watches from the hallway; missionaries clumsily navigate an uprising with barbed wire and broken glass; a boy disparages memorized scripture, facedown on the asphalt, as he fails to fend off his bully. From Kentucky to Florida to Haiti, these seemingly disparate lives are woven together within a series of nested repetitions, enacting the struggle to remain physically and spiritually alive throughout the untamable turbulence of their worlds. In a masterful blend of fiction, autobiography, and surrealism, Kyle Minor shows us that the space between fearlessness and terror is often very small. Long before 'Praying Drunk' reaches its plaintive, pitch-perfect end, Minor establishes himself again and again as one of the most talented younger writers in America."--Publisher.

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