Description: The website maintained by Tina Egnoski, fiction writer and poet
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Mint Hill Books, 2020
This collection explores issues of grief, isolation, infidelity, and moments of joy. The characters range from a 13-year-old girl who observes the effects of the Vietnam War draft on a neighbor to an elderly woman with dementia who, while gardening at night, sings Broadway show tunes to her dead husband. The title story focuses on the relationship between a father and his daughter as she struggles with an unwanted pregnancy. At the heart of the collection is family. Not just the nuclear family of parents, c
"Tina Egnoski is, quite simply, a beautiful writer. With knife-edged detail, Egnoski draws us into the expansive worlds of her characters at the turning points their lives. She immerses us in their trials so completely, we cheer for them even as we achingly watch them struggle with the deep-heart matters of life that mirror our own. The skillfully-crafted stories in this collection remind us that the people who brush our lives, however lightly, fan behind them a wide wake of experiences, memories, and emoti