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ou start to think of george s jaw pressed and wrenched and scraped against the pavement your face swells with tears your body is now shaking uncontrollably then the eight minutes are reached the silence is broken by a low murmuring in the crowd and you are alive again you are a white person who is still alive on a sidewalk in helena montana on a nice sunday afternoon birds might even be singing in the trees over your head you stand with the rush of blood flowing out into your veins from your knees and you feel an electric surge of hatred for all those who flipped you off called you that horrible word and all those iron necked drivers who worse yet refused to look at you you surge with emotion something like a growl even rips up and out of your throat you stay on the sidewalk for another five minutes after the moment of silence has passed then you turn to your wife and say are you ready to leave and she nods you lower your signs then carry your boxes with george and his plea for breath back across the state capitol lawn other people at the edges of the crowd are doing the same you are done you have said or not said what you have come to say you know it is not enough it will never be enough but you stood and you will stand again because now you have a fire in your belly you are agitated and you are an agitator you go home log on to facebook and write this on your wall thank you to the dozens and dozens of horn honking supportive helena drivers for your symphony of horns thanks also to the drivers who flipped us off and called us names you helped us keep our perspective and remember that the world is not yet completely rid of tiny hearted assholes keep fighting the good fight my brothers and sisters email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest posted by david abrams at june 04 2020 11 comments sunday may 31 2020 fresh ink may 2020 edition fresh ink is a monthly tally of new and forthcoming books mainly advance review copies aka uncorrected proofs and galleys i ve received from publishers cover art and opening lines may change before the book is finally released i should also mention that in nearly every case i haven t had a chance to read these books but they re definitely going in the to be read pile becoming duchess goldblatt by anonymous houghton mifflin harcourt jacket copy becoming duchess goldblatt is two stories that of the reclusive real life writer who created a fictional character out of loneliness and thin air and that of the magical duchess goldblatt herself a bright light in the darkness of social media fans around the world are drawn to her grace s voice her wit her life affirming love for all humanity and the fun and friendship of the community that s sprung up around her duchessgoldblat 81 year old literary icon author of an axe to grind brought people together in her name in bookstores museums concerts and coffee shops and along the way brought real friends home foremost among them lyle lovett but who is the duchess in their own words the only way to be reliably sure that the hero gets the girl at the end of the story is to be both the hero and the girl yourself opening lines i must have slept weird folks my backstory is killing me blurbworthiness after reading this unforgettable memoir i figured out who duchess goldblatt is all of us behind her brilliantly witty and uplifting message is a remarkable vulnerability and candor that reminds us that we are not alone in our struggles and that we can against all odds get through them as though casting a magic spell on her readers she moves inspires and connects us through her unvarnished humanity it was for this therapist a form of therapy i didn t know i needed lori gottlieb author of maybe you should talk to someone why it s in my stack as a long time follower worshipper of the duchess i like many of their royal subjects am curious to discover what they look like behind the twitter avatar riding with the ghost by justin taylor random house jacket copy when justin taylor was thirty his father larry drove to the top of the nashville airport parking garage to take his own life thanks to the intervention of family members he was not successful but the incident would forever transform how taylor thinks of his father and how he thinks of himself as a son moving back and forth in time from that day riding with the ghost captures the past s power to shape strengthen and distort our visions of ourselves and one another we see larry as the middle child in a chilly long island family as a beloved little league coach who listens to kids with patience and curiosity as an unemployed father struggling to keep his marriage together while battling long term illness and depression at the same time taylor explores how the work of confronting a family member s story forces a reckoning with your own we see taylor as a teacher modeling himself after his dad s best qualities as a caregiver attempting to provide his father with emotional and financial support but not always succeeding as a new husband with a dawning awareness of his own depressive tendencies as a man struggling to understand his relationship to his religion and himself with raw intimacy riding with the ghost lays bare the joys and burdens of loving a troubled family member it s a memoir about fathers and sons teachers and students faith and illness and the pieces of our loved ones that we carry with us opening lines my father had decided that he would end his life by throwing himself from the top of the parking garage at the nashville airport which he later told me had seemed like the best combination of convenience that is he could get there easily and unnoticed and sufficiency that is he was pretty sure it was tall enough to do the job i never asked him what other venues he considered and rejected before settling on this plan he probably did not actually use the word best it was mother s day 2013 blurbworthiness justin taylor s relentless peripatetic and tender search for reconciliation with his late troubled father blooms into a full throated song of joy about his own life lived through music teaching travel and literature riding with the ghost is gorgeously layered and deeply felt lauren groff author of florida why it s in my stack well father s day is coming up a small crowd of strangers by joanna rose forest avenue press jacket copy how does a librarian from new jersey end up in a convenience store on vancouver island in the middle of the night playing bible scrabble with a korean physicist and a drunk priest she gets married to the wrong man for starters she didn t know he was that kind of catholic and ends up in st cloud minnesota she gets a job in a new age bookstore wanders toward buddhism without realizing it and acquires a dog things get complicated after that pattianne anthony is less a thinker than a dreamer and she finds out the hard way that she doesn t want a husband much less a baby and that getting out of a marriage is a lot harder than getting into it especially when the landscape of the west becomes the voice of reason a small crowd of strangers joanna rose s second novel is part love story part slightly sideways spiritual journey opening lines it was things like reading all of john updike and all of elmore leonard and doing the crossword in the middle of the afternoon when she didn t have to work with the all classical station pouring out the windows of her apartment over the dry cleaner s that s what being thirty was about blurbworthiness as a fan of joanna rose s groundbreaking novel little miss strange i was eager to read the next a small crowd of strangers lucky readers this novel too is buoyant tender and it s so easy to invest in her lively characters and the gorgeously described landscape at the center of the novel is pattianne anthony a quirky reference librarian who is smart and witty but who also tends to make major life choices on a whim one of those is to marry a charming schoolteacher michael bryn and move from her childhood home in new jersey to st cloud minnesota it s pattianne s discovery of self that most captivates through these pages her budding realization that she has let life lead her instead of her leading life as pattianne ventures out we witness her profound discoveries about love family faith and the abiding strength of an eclectic community and in this way rose s novel becomes sweetly intimate a joy to read debra gwartney author of i am a stranger here myself why it s in my stack i thoroughly enjoyed the opening paragraphs which had enough kinetic energy to pull me right into the rushing current of words i want to read more and more and more barcelona days by daniel riley little brown jacket copy whitney and will are a perfect couple by all appearances their relationship rock solid and their engagement soon to be announced before their impending nuptials however whitney suggests a lighthearted experiment why not give each other three romantic free passes before getting married three opportunities to imagine other lives before returning with new appreciation for each other on what s meant to be the last night of a romantic barcelona vacation they agree to regale one another with details of these harmless trysts they grin and bear it and fall asleep feeling mostly satisfied and relieved to be firmly together again but then a volcano erupts overnight spewing a cloud of ash across europe and grounding all flights indefinitely trapped in barcelona their paths intertwine with a star basketball player his future dashed by a crippling injury and a foreign exchange student with a double life about to return home and face reality whitney and will flirt provoke dance and drink over the next three days they will use and be used by their new friends once again testing the boundaries of their relationship but this time can it survive opening lines to you and me will said lifting his wine a local something butcher red the label said it was from penedes just down the coast and it featured a bull with roses where its horns should be to 1 2 3 witney said lifting her glass to match and they clinked a heavy clink and it rang out around the dining room like a good idea blurbworthiness from beginning to end the reader walks with whitney and will along the precipice marking an edge they may or may not have crossed with dry humor and involving dialogue riley steps boldly into territory other authors have only tentatively approached enobong tommelleo why it s in my stack my first impression based on the barest of skims through its opening pages is that barcelona days gives off a sheltering sky vibe this summer feels like a good time to immerse myself in literary affairs email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest posted by david abrams at may 31 2020 0 comments labels fresh ink sunday sentence i miss you when i blink by mary laura philpott simply put the best sentence s i ve read this past week presented out of context and without commentary if you met him you would want to marry him but you can t because i already did when i am packing a suitcase and i ve crammed every last rectangle of folded clothing into the bag and added shoes makeup a just in case it s cold cardigan and a panicked last minute backup outfit or two and i m mashing everything down as hard as i can and i go from zero to psycho in a second because i can t get the bag zipped and i m stomping on the bag and hammering at it with my fists he calmly opens it rearranges a few things and zips it i miss you when i blink by mary laura philpott i chose three sue me i am breaking the rules this week but i can t resist commenting on how rich with humor both of these selections are the first with a sort of snap snap feel to it and the second has an admirable momentum that should be used as an example of how to write a long tightly coiled sentence in writing classrooms i mean tear it apart and count the syllables and breath beats to marvel at how mlp turns the first part of the sentence into luggage itself full of details and hyphenated adjectives and verbs like crammed and mashing and stomped and then see how her husband comes in and acts as the zipper closing the sentence with neat efficiency zzzzzip now that s how you sentence people email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest posted by david abrams at may 31 2020 41 comments labels sunday sentence older posts home subscribe to posts atom need an editor i now offer manuscript consulting services through grub street if you need someone both tough and fair to look over your pages with an editorial eye i m here to help click the logo for more info the quivering pen s motto can be summed up in two words book evangelism the blog is written and curated by david abrams author of the novels brave deeds grove atlantic 2017 and fobbit grove atlantic 2012 from his home office in butte montana it is fueled by early morning cups of coffee the 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