Things that Fall from the Sky Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight of hand Kevin Brockmeier s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world throug

Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight of hand, Kevin Brockmeier s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens In the deftly told These Hands, a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after she is wrenched away.Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight of hand, Kevin Brockmeier s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens In the deftly told These Hands, a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after she is wrenched away In Apples, a boy comes to terms with the complex world of adults, his first pangs of love, and the bizarre death of his Bible coach The Jesus Stories examines a people trying to accelerate the Second Coming by telling the story of Christ in every possible way And in the O Henry Award winning The Ceiling, a man s marriage begins to disintegrate after the sky starts slowly descending.Achingly beautiful and deceptively simple, Things That Fall from the Sky defies gravity as one of the most original story collections seen in recent years.
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Born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, Brockmeier received his MFA from the Iowa Writer s Workshop in 1997 His stories have been featured in The New Yorker, McSweeny s, Crazyhorse, and The Georgia Review He is the recipient of an O Henry Award, the Nelson Algren Award, and a National Endowment of the Arts grant.