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Nona Caspers
Dear Librarian, My readers love the oddballs and thwarted dreamers in HEAVIER THAN AIR. The stories are mini-novels that quietly buzz with life and secrets, like a hot summer afternoon in the country. Girls fall in love with the wrong people, a farmer discovers unexpected solace in a highway median, a mother reunites with her gay daughter. People like you and me on the cusp of an exciting or terrifying edge—they may fly or fall but as one critic said "are rendered breathtakingly alive." Booklist calls the book "Darkly funny and compassionate" and critics have compared it to the works of Anne Tyler, Willa Cather and Denis Johnson. New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. "passionate awakenings...the simplest acts—even just noticing one's breath— become wondrous moments" -Booklist "..like the beauty of the prairie itself" - New York Times Book Review You can see excerpts at nonacaspers.com. I'm happy to visit book clubs by phone, or in the Bay Area in person. Thank you for your work—as an oddball kid libraries saved me. Nona
Heavier than Air / Nona Caspers / University of Massachusetts Press / Paperback; 208 Pages
Price: $19.95 / ISBN: 978-1558496446 / Published: March 2008 Nona Caspers is one of our featured authors this week. Click here to view her reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |