The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo

Author : Darrin Doyle
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429968931
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo written by Darrin Doyle and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this charming novel, Darrin Doyle paints a captivating portrait of the all-American family—if the all-American family's youngest child ate an entire city in Michigan with a smile, that is. Doyle has a flare for writing about family dysfunction with a twist. With a unique blend of realism and fantasy, The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo is the moving story of the hauntingly beautiful Audrey Mapes, who began her illustrious "career" by downing crayons by the carton only to graduate to eating an entire city one bite at a time. With vivid, acerbic wit, Doyle details the life of the world's most gifted "eatist" through the eyes of Audrey's sister, McKenna. Through her eyes, we see the real tragedy of the Mapes story is not the destruction of a city, but rather, the quiet disintegration of a family who just didn't quite know how to love.

Author : Gerald Brennan
Publisher : Tortoise Books
ISBN 13 : 1948954427
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pleasure You Suffer written by Gerald Brennan and published by Tortoise Books. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saudade reportedly has no direct English translation; it’s a Portuguese word describing the nostalgic longing for something that may never return, or may not exist. This feeling can be strangely comforting; author Manuel de Mello calls it “A pleasure you suffer, an ailment you enjoy.” It permeates the music of Brazil, another nation steeped in slavery and sadness and the hope for a better life. Yet this heartsick yearning’s actually very familiar to those of us born and raised in North America; we often call it “the blues.” This saudade-themed anthology explores this fascinating emotional territory in exciting poems and stories from a range of new and up-and-coming authors—pieces that linger after the last page is turned.

Author : Steve Passey
Publisher : Tortoise Books
ISBN 13 : 1948954389
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forty-Five Minutes of Unstoppable Rock written by Steve Passey and published by Tortoise Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unadulterated look inside the lives of those hardest hit by the Great Recession, Steve Passey shows with great clarity that when all else fails, it’s our relationships that keep us afloat, even if we’re drifting to nowhere. Narrators shaped by the generation decaying around them proclaim an era where the Business of Bad News is the norm, and the only escape is trying to find solace in the familiarity of everyday life. Relatable in their unique contentment with the bottom of the barrel, these characters form the most intimate bonds through conversations held in the marginal spaces of the American Dream.

Author : Darrin Doyle
Publisher : Tortoise Books
ISBN 13 : 1948954338
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scoundrels Among Us written by Darrin Doyle and published by Tortoise Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious man appears suspended in the air above a major American city. A foul-mouthed posse of machete-wielding scoundrels wreak havoc on a small-town mayor. A cocaine-addled boxer starts a torrid affair with the wife of the Invisible Man—who just might be watching (and enjoying) all the freakiness. Darrin Doyle’s latest book of short stories is an electrifying look at men behaving badly—or just being weird. Hilarious, madly inventive, and compellingly readable, this unforgettable collection will leave the reader disturbed, dazzled, delirious—and begging for more.

Author : Darrin Doyle
Publisher : Tortoise Books
ISBN 13 : 1948954583
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beast in Aisle 34 written by Darrin Doyle and published by Tortoise Books. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandy Kurtz has problems. He's got a baby on the way, his wife doesn't love him, and he's struggling to find passion or purpose at his big-box retail job. And, once a month, he turns into a werewolf. In Darrin Doyle's deft hands, Sandy's story is a tall tale for our times, an absurd and darkly comedic take on toxic masculinity, small-town America, and the terror of not knowing who you are—or who you're capable of becoming. Join us on the trip. Feel the power of the full moon as it turns you into a carnivore capable of ruling the wilds of rural Michigan. Taste the rich blood of a pulsing animal heart; feel it cascade down your face as you transform into what you always wanted to be. Enter...the wolf.

Author : Darrin Doyle
Publisher : Tortoise Books
ISBN 13 : 1948954451
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Will End The Dark written by Darrin Doyle and published by Tortoise Books. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning and visceral in its emotional impact, The Dark Will End The Dark collects 14 stories by veteran author Darrin Doyle. Deftly mixing realism and fabulism, bleakness and hope, sparkling dialogue and unforgettable characters, these literary Midwestern Gothic tales remain in the reader’s mind long after the last page is turned.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Author : Darrin Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781646034451
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let Gravity Seize the Dead written by Darrin Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, Beck Randall moves with his wife and teenage daughters into a long-abandoned cabin deep in the woods, built a century before by his grandparents. Once there, daughters Tina and Lucy discover that their predecessors have left an imprint of suffering and violence the girls refer to as " The Whistler," an eerie presence infused in the nature that surrounds them. As the 1907 and 2007 storylines braid together, characters and events intrude upon each other, blurring the boundaries between eras and illustrating that people and lives are not forgotten; instead, they are woven into the fabric of the land itself. With gritty, lyrical storytelling, Let Gravity Seize the Dead is an intergenerational literary horror story featuring a blend of suspense, beauty, and terror.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Star written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Agriculturist written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: