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Praying Drunk (2014)

by Kyle Minor(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1936747634 (ISBN13: 9781936747634)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Sarabande Books

review 1: Masie Cochran (Editor, Tin House Books): I just finished reading Kyle Minor’s Praying Drunk and I’m still in that KO punch haze of having my brain rearranged by a heavyweight storyteller. Minor shows he’s in charge early, really early, in the epigraph: “These stories are meant to be read in order. This is a book, not just a collection. Don’t skip around.” He’s right, it’s not just a collection. Minor’s stories are relentless, not told chronologically, but building steam, pushed by shared themes, ideas, feelings, and sometimes characters and locations. I don’t want to give anything away—go out and buy a copy. I have a feeling we are all going to be talking and writing about Praying Drunk come award season.
review 2: I love Praying Drunk. I... more love the way the language bends to its purpose, the way the stories circle round each other. I love the way that nothing works out for good in the end, or maybe some things do, but certainly not everything. I love the puke green locker room, even though I'm not supposed to. I love the ruminations, the imaginations, the language. I love the stories more than I love the characters, and that doesn't happen very often these days. I hope you'll read this book, because then you'll love it too. less

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