It discusses several stories from the Bible and related them to all kinds of other things in the world, like whale songs. Her style is accessible but also very informed.
What does Bible study look like after inerrancy? Do you have to give up studying Scripture when you no longer believe in its literal interpretation? Can you still believe this book is sacred even while renegotiating your relationship to the church? In Knock at the Sky, Liz Charlotte Grant offers compelling answers to these questions and more in this deeply personal commentary on the book of Genesis.
Braiding together encounters with the natural world, Jewish midrash, and art criticism, Grant makes familiar Sunday school stories strange and offers a fresh vision for…
It took me to a world I wasn't familiar with and featured characters I couldn't exactly relate to but could empathize with--it was at moments heartbreaking.
Unity Dow's third novel, Juggling Truths portrays the childhood of Monei Ntuka in the Botswanan village of Mochudi in Africa. Go to the past with me, so you can take the past to the future, asks her Nkoko. Nei takes us on an extraordinary journey through the many truths that shape her life; the truths of the colonisers and their churches and of her own people. We travel with her through dreams and share the wisdom of her grandmother as she lets the never-ending stories weave their own reality in face of a universe of conflicting truths. Unity Dow recreates…
The funniest, most woebegotten Appalachian blues ever written up North.
Praise for Appalachians Run Amok:
What did Dickinson say? That she knew it was poetry if she felt as if the top of her head was taken off? If that's the standard, then hell yes this is poetry, and this is poetry that has lopped off my whole head and jammed me back into where and who I'm from. Blevins has found the sweet spot, building narratives that riff, stories that sing in the voice of the most combustible, lowdown country song…
This collection focuses on place, especially northern Michigan and Lake Superior—the author lives four blocks from the lake and immerses herself in it as often as possible (though she admits that until July 4 every year, it’s a little too chilly). The poems are filled with water, sometimes in the form of snow or ice, as well as dragonflies, white deer, and black bears.
