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Requiem by Teresa Carmody is a "folk opera, a lament for the unexamined life," writes editor and author David Ulin in his Introduction. In this short collection of fiction, a lonely man plainchants for the waitress he once stalked, a sonless father serenades a fatherless son, and a bereft family gathers to bury a parent, providing an aching chorus of what is left. Carmody uses Biblical language to pierce the callous and bruised souls of these lost, and sometimes found, small-town Michiganders. In her raw spare stories, novelist, essayist, and poet Carol Muske-Dukes writes that Carmody creates in her raw, spare stories, “a voice out of the backyard burning bush, a Midwest scriptural mist: frank, fierce and fidgety, and most emphatically her own.
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Keywords
- Family
- loss
- Michigan
- Midwest
- mourning
- Religion
- Short stories
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KB North America (USA and Canada)::1KBB United States of America, USA
- thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FB Fiction: general and literary::FBA Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
- thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FS Family life fiction
- thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FX Fiction: narrative themes::FXL Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
- thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FY Fiction: special features::FYB Short stories
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DOI: 10.53288/0561.1.00Editions