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The sound of holding your breath : stories
- Title
- The sound of holding your breath : stories / Natalie Sypolt.
- Author
- Sypolt, Natalie
- Publication
- Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- 156 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- The residents of The Sound of Holding Your Breath could be neighbors, sharing the same familiar landscapes of twenty-first-century Appalachia--lake and forest, bridge and church, cemetery and garden, diner and hair salon. They could be your neighbors--average, workaday, each struggling with secrets and losses, entrenched in navigating the complex requirements of family in all its forms. Yet tragedy and violence challenge these unassuming lives: A teenage boy is drawn to his sister's husband, an EMT searching the lake for a body. A brother, a family, and a community fail to confront the implications of a missing girl. A pregnant widow spends Thanksgiving with her deceased husband's family. Siblings grapple with the death of their sister-in-law at the hands of their brother. And in the title story, the shame of rape ruptures more than a decade later. Accidents and deaths, cons and cover-ups, abuse and returning veterans--Natalie Sypolt's characters wrestle with who they are during the most trying situations of their lives.
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Contents
- Diving -- Flaming Jesus -- Ghosts -- Get up, June -- At the lake -- Home visit -- Handlers -- Love, off to the side -- Wanting baby -- Lettuce -- My brothers and me -- What would be saved -- The sound of holding your breath -- Stalking the white deer.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-3861
- ISBN
- 9781946684578
- 1946684570
- LCCN
- 2018011389
- 40028588669
- OCLC
- 1035222651
- Author
- Sypolt, Natalie, author.
- Title
- The sound of holding your breath : stories / Natalie Sypolt.
- Publisher
- Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028588669
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-3861