Moon Up, Past Full

by Eric Shonkwiler, Christina Collins (Illustrator)

Overview

As Faulkner's voice portrayed the South and Breece D'J Pancake's represented Appalachia, Eric Shonkwiler captures the Midwest, with this collection of novellas and short stories that peels back the edges of rural existence to expose the heart of it. Through parental neglect, rebellious sons and daughters, drug-addled war veterans, backwoods zombies, injured firemen, car thieves, witch doctors, and Navajo ghosts, Shonkwiler brings you a disregarded world you can no longer ignore--one thriving with the mundane, the bruised, the unheard. Here is the voice of the rest of us, spoken only the way firsthand experience, rooted deep in overworked soil, can say it.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151191319
Publisher:	Alternating Current
Publication date:	10/20/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	250
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Eric Shonkwiler is the author of the Luminaire Award for Best Prose-winning story collection Moon Up, Past Full (Alternating Current, 2015), and the novel Above All Men (MG Press, 2014), which won the Coil Book Award for Best Book and was chosen as a Midwest Connections Pick by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association. He has had writing appear in Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Ohio, received his MFA from University of California-Riverside as a Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow, was recently selected as a New River Gorge Winter Writer-in-Residence in West Virginia, and has lived and worked in every contiguous U.S. time zone.

Editorial Reviews

"Shonkwiler's stories capture the rural experience rarely heard--the quiet, dangerous voices of the desperate, struggling for honor among thieves. A stark and timely slice of Americana gothic that both razes and rebuilds."

http://www.press.alternatingcurrentarts.com/2015/08/moon-up-past-full-eric-shonkwiler.html - Paula Bomer

"Sometimes it's bad decisions; other times it's just trying to stamp out an existence the only way a person knows how, but the stories within are enough to make most men cry. Shonkwiler has an eye for detail and a lot of heart that he places in each and every sentence to make his words leap from the page and stay with you long after they've been read."

http://www.press.alternatingcurrentarts.com/2015/08/moon-up-past-full-eric-shonkwiler.html - Frank Bill

"Eric Shonkwiler is quickly making his way up my list of all-time favorite authors. For those who may have worried whether he'd fall victim to a sophomore slump, Shonkwiler's second release is just as sparse and beautifully written. He continues to astound and amaze me with the way he lifts the Midwest up and off the page. The stories are tender and patient but powerful. They are sneaky and wily. The characters hurt and ache and struggle, and yet, in Shonkwiler's hands, they seem so safe."

http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/book-review-moon-up-past-full.html - Lori Hettler

"Eric Shonkwiler is the new voice of the American Heartland. The stories in Moon Up, Past Full touch the scorched heart of the Midwest, and there is something deeply American in the telling, a directness that honors the cowhands and combat vets, single mothers and fatherless daughters, who grit their teeth and lean into those old hard winds."

http://www.press.alternatingcurrentarts.com/2015/08/moon-up-past-full-eric-shonkwiler.html - Taylor Brown

"Midwestern voices are hot in fiction right now, and Eric Shonkwiler stands out among them. Moon Up is a collection of short fiction that has the normal and the unfortunate juxtaposed with the supernatural (zombies, witch doctors, ghosts); if you feel small-town life deep in your soul, this is a collection to check out."

http://bookriot.com/2015/10/19/8-small-press-books-read-october/ - Susie Rodarme