Praying Drunk: Stories, Questions by Minor, Kyle
Praying Drunk: Stories, Questions by Minor, Kyle

Praying Drunk: Stories, Questions

I finished this book with my heart pounding and grateful, my coffee cold and my smile wide...
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Author: Kyle Minor
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Praying Drunk: Stories, Questions by Minor, Kyle

Praying Drunk: Stories, Questions

$32.22
Praying Drunk: Stories, Questions by Minor, Kyle

Praying Drunk: Stories, Questions

$32.22
Author: Kyle Minor
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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I finished this book with my heart pounding and grateful, my coffee cold and my smile wide and crying like a baby.--Daniel Handler

The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom counter while his son watches from the hallway; missionaries clumsily navigate an uprising with barbed wire and broken glass; a boy disparages memorized scripture, facedown on the asphalt, as he fails to fend off his bully. From Kentucky to Florida to Haiti, these seemingly disparate lives are woven together within a series of nested repetitions, enacting the struggle to remain physically and spiritually alive throughout the untamable turbulence of their worlds. In a masterful blend of fiction, autobiography, and surrealism, Kyle Minor shows us that the space between fearlessness and terror is often very small. Long before Praying Drunk reaches its plaintive, pitch-perfect end, Minor establishes himself again and again as one of the most talented younger writers in America.


Author: Kyle Minor
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 02/04/2014
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781936747634


Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Bronze Medal Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/08/2013
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2014
New York Times Book Review 04/27/2014 pg. 24

About the Author
Kyle Minor is the winner of the 2012 Iowa Review Prize for Short Fiction, the Tara M. Kroger Prize for Short Fiction, and the author of In Devil's Territory (Dzanc Books, 2008). He is also a three-time honoree in the annual Atlantic Monthly writing contest, and was named one of Random House's Best New Voices of 2006. His work has appeared in The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Salon.com, Best American Mystery Stories 2008, Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers, and Forty Stories: New Voices from Harper Perennial.

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