Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story about My Childhood. a Novel. by Fakih, Kimberly Olson
Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story about My Childhood. a Novel. by Fakih, Kimberly Olson

Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story about My Childhood. a Novel.

Set in Iowa and Minnesota in the 60s and 70s, Little Miseries is a Midwestern Gothic where...
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Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story about My Childhood. a Novel. by Fakih, Kimberly Olson

Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story about My Childhood. a Novel.

CHF 35.95
Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story about My Childhood. a Novel. by Fakih, Kimberly Olson

Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story about My Childhood. a Novel.

CHF 35.95
Author: Kimberly Olson Fakih
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Set in Iowa and Minnesota in the 60s and 70s, Little Miseries is a Midwestern Gothic where sometimes the misery is just that--little--and sometimes it is epic and yawning, capable of swallowing every childhood memory. There are the miseries the Castles will talk about--old family lore about a great, great, great uncle who was split in two while connecting railroad cars--and the misery none of them will face. There are days at the lake, placid except for inexplicable tension the parents won't address and the three Castle children don't have names for. There are stories about sex and gore at cocktail parties, around bonfires, at sleepovers, in classrooms, and in the newspaper. Everyday growing pains are shadowed by the abduction of a local girl, reports of a massacre of nurses, and the harm done by strangers and by those who are charged to care for children. To survive childhood is to survive all of these miseries and tragedies, because growing up means waking up to a world that can be random and brutal.

With some thematic overlap with Rick Moody's The Ice Storm or if Sally Draper from Mad Men got to tell her side of the story, Little Miseries is set in a time and place when parents didn't talk much to their children but they certainly talked around them--while dipping into whiskey or rum punch, whether on a long drive, on the beach, or in the comfort of their own home. Little Miseries is a tribute to what it means to come into awareness, to be a part of a family unit, and to bear responsibility for those you loved and who have been harmed along the way.



Author: Kimberly Olson Fakih
Publisher: Delphinium Books
Published: 01/10/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.30w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781953002204


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 11/14/2022
Library Journal 01/01/2023 pg. 82
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