Fragile Objects

by Katy Carl

Overview

In these stories, characters' bodies trouble their souls, stirring questions about why we are here and how we are to live. Confronted by their own vulnerabilities, they must also contend with the weaknesses of those they want to love. Will they find their trust well placed; will they rise to moments of grace-or will their lives crack under pressure? These stories seek to do justice in art to the human condition's real, though fleeting, gifts-to our much-explored, but only ever partially understood, potential for comic resolution, tragic failure, and the substance of things hoped for between the two.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951319113
Publisher:	Wiseblood Books
Publication date:	06/01/2023
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)

Editorial Reviews

"In Katy Carl's magnificent first collection of short stories . . . lead characters, more often than not women, confront life-changing choices and sometimes make horrible decisions in their confusing and rapidly changing worlds. Fragile Objects is a book that merits reading and rereading."

-A.M. Juster, translator, author of Wonder and Wrath

"A prophet (or is she?) is ignored at a church fair, a woman uses sin (or does she?) to seek freedom from a fanatical religious upbringing. Katy Carl's strongly written characters move through an enigmatic, fallen world of psychological and social confusion, seeking to act-or at least survive. Imperfect people making decisions based on imperfect information, in most cases without faith (or a few with weary faith). Through these stories, the reader feels 'the whole of creation groaning'-crying out for redemption, seeking God."

-Arthur Powers, The Book of Jotham, A Hero for the People, and Padre Raimundo's Army

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