May We Shed These Human Bodies

by Amber Sparks, Lauryn Lewis (Editor), Alban Fischer (Illustrator)

Overview

May We Shed These Human Bodies peers through vast spaces and skies with the world's most powerful telescope to find humanity: wild and bright and hard as diamonds. A whole sideshow's worth of heartbreaking oddballs and freaks.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015559132
Publisher:	Curbside Splendor Publishing
Publication date:	10/03/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	150
Sales rank:	767,160
File size:	334 KB

About the Author

Amber Sparks is a Washington DC based author whose work has been widely published. She's one of today's freshest literary fiction voices, drawing on fables and mythologies as inspiration for her fiction that explores the human yearning for understanding and uniquely captures her generation's struggle with today's hyper-techno-crazed world. This is her debut story collection.

Editorial Reviews

Sparks’s debut story collection swirls with a Tim Burton-like whimsy… modern fables in which epiphanies replace moral lessons and tales unfold with Grimm-like wickedness.

Publishers Weekly - Alex Crowely

Sometimes all it takes is a few sentences to knock you off your rocker. Or at least that’s the case in Sparks’s debut collection, which packs 30 short short stories, each its own modern fable, into one handsome book.

Flavorwire - Emily Temple

Amber Sparks has a knack for saying a lot with very little. The short stories in this collection range anywhere from a few paragraphs to a few pages long, and yet they tell their story more clearly and more entirely than some novels I have read.

The Next Best Book Club - Lori Hettler