Jessie van Eerden

Broschiertes Buch

Yoke and Feather

Beschreibung

A collection of braided essays that explores the concept of the everyday sacred. The essays delve into various experiences, including blessings for events like a demolition derby and a public-school lice check, a canoe trip through Boquillas Canyon on the Rio Grande, and a visit to the kitchen of biblical sisters Mary and Martha, who welcome an unexpected foster daughter.

Autor

Jessie van Eerden is the author of two essay collections, Yoke & Feather  and The Long Weeping, and three novels: Glorybound, My Radio Radio, and Call It Horses which won the 2019 Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction. Her work has appeared in Best American Spiritual Writing, Oxford American, AGNI, Image, New England Review, and other magazines and anthologies. She has been awarded the Gulf Coast Prize in Nonfiction, the Milton Fellowship, and a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship. Jessie holds an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa and teaches creative writing at Hollins University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dzanc Books
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9780984213368
• ISBN-10: 0984213368
• Artikelnr.: 69825307