Whispers in Dust and Bone

Whispers in Dust and Bone
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9 x 6.3 192 pages
978-0896724969

Andrew Geyer’s Award Winning Short Fiction Work:

  • Spur Award for Best Short Fiction, Western Writers of America, 2004
  • Foreword Magazine Short Fiction Book of the Year, Silver Medal, 2003
  • John Gardner Fiction Book Award, SUNY Binghamton, Finalist, 2003

Diverse in setting and broad in range, these award-winning stories all turn, in some way, on the passing of the rural Southwest Texas way of life and its stamp on those who leave there. Ranging from bare-bones narratives to magical realism and ever lush in regional particulars, the stories all center on a sense of place. Sharing a point of origin and a journey, their characters weave in and out of the stories, looking for new starts-for answers-and seeing the world through dry eyes. They explore exotic Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, and a dig site in Peru and make a voyage of discovery down the Amazon River. They lose faith in God and find it again in such unlikely places as a water lot in South Carolina. The displaced protagonists all search for something elusive, something lost, yet in Geyer’s hands are yoked by a tension that is somehow always new and always compelling.