A Wall of Bright Dead Feathers: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780965746892)

Winner, 2022 Texas Institute of Letters Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction

Each of the flawed, fully human characters we meet in these twelve stories faces a moment of life-altering transformation. Most are newcomers to the scenic, rolling countryside of central Texas whose charms they romanticize, even as the troubles they hoped to leave behind persist.

A young pianist struggles to keep her emotionally fragile boyfriend alive; a displaced New Yorker's ambivalence with guns results in two fractured families; an oil man gambles on his estranged daughter's integrity. The complicated history of this German-Czech region, where the stories are set, anchors the experience of two young artists who make a costly decision in 1862.

In graceful and precise, often lyrical, prose, Fraser Hale immerses us in lives whose superficial privilege provides no real protection against the unexpected.

Author: Babette Fraser Hale
ISBN-10: 0965746895
ISBN-13: 9780965746892
Publisher: Winedale Publishing
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2021
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d