Böcker utgivna av Kathleen Patrick

Genre: Short Stories/Literary Fiction Dancing the crazy dance of worry, one day at a time. A collection of short stories that examines the human capacity to worry about everything from forgetting to leave water out for a pet to the possibility of a bear attack. "Short stories are a disappearing art form, and Patrick demonstrates why we should keep them around. There is no grandiosity of language that detracts from the storyline or from the artful character descriptions. Characters navigate their way through their predicaments one day at a time. The poignant vignettes showcase the rawness of various human emotions, much like a snapshot of an expert photographer.""I loved this book! From beginning to end the characters smack of realism and you can see people you know or yourself in them. I wish it were the first book in a series of ten--because I wanted more!" Anxiety in the Wilderness examines what it means to dance the crazy dance of worry and still be able to appreciate the music. It explores the human feelings of fear, dread, and uneasiness in the American landscape, as a cast of characters find their way through life, one day at a time. 184 pages

"A beautiful story with raw and rich characters showing humanity at its flawed worst and inspiring best."A struggling young artist. A bus stop. A boy. An unlikely friendship is the backdrop for a story about anxiety and hope, about believing in the future and reconciling the past.Sam Ellings drew everyday people doing everyday things: waiting around at the bus stop, at the grocery store, at the bank. Despite the Cold War tensions of the late 1980s, she figured things would turn out okay. Then she met Rexel, a young boy also looking for answers. Their unlikely friendship is the backdrop for a story about anxiety and hope, about believing in the future and reconciling the past, as Sam navigates her way through the Minnesota seasons in search of happiness.Did Sam deserve to be happy or not? Wasn't it that simple? All her life, all the men she'd wanted to love, all the chances she'd taken, left her at night with a stereo and a skylight in the ceiling, where all she could see were the icy stars.Perfume River is filled with a cast of characters as diverse and compelling as those at the bus stop where Sam likes to sit on the sidewalk and draw. Each character brings something to the table that helps Sam figure out how to move forward and embrace what's in her heart.

This is literary fiction at its best. Filled with raw and rich characters, it portrays humanity at its flawed worst and inspiring best."Mercy is a phenomenal young adult coming of age story that will capture the hearts of readers of all ages!""A profoundly moving novel, with a story so powerful as to cause me to pause every few pages to wipe away tears. Mercy packs an emotional punch... This is an impressive debut novel, one well-worth the grief and tears it is sure to evoke."When Sadie was twelve years old, her mother got an itch for gambling, and she scratched it more often than she should have. Often forced to parent herself, Sadie's life is full of empty promises and big responsibilities. The book opens when Alice and her boyfriend drop off Sadie at her uncle's farm in South Dakota so they can go south to look for work and a new place to live. Sadie meets her Uncle Charlie for the first time, a reclusive Vietnam vet who raises and boards horses. Faced with the very real possibility that her mother isn't going to come back, Sadie and Charlie discover that family can come in all shapes and sizes. Mercy is a coming-of-age story that reverberates with the basic human need to be loved. 178 pages

Two women. A yacht in the Tyrrhenian Sea. One choice that changes everything. How can Cora move on and build the life she sees for herself? The Shoe Box Waltz will take you on an emotional ride, blurring the lines between reality and fiction, between dreams and nightmares, between that which could have happened, and that which did. So, I won't use my own name. I'll tell you this entire story, and you'll think I made it up. You'll have to; it's fiction. That's how fiction works. I'll write about that time when Cora Daneli was traveling around Europe with a friend she'd met in a youth hostel in Oxford. That was before the boat, but that's my story, so I'll start at the beginning...