The Loss of All Lost Things. Mon Sep 14, 6p pst.
Session five of #bookclubhouse!
What: The Loss of All Lost Things, by Amina Gautier.
— Reading the titular short story, The Loss of All Lost Things. 15min read.
— Not avail online, need to buy or borrow. Amazon link.
When: Monday Sep 14th, 6pm pst
Where: Clubhouse! in the #bookclubhouse room
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About the piece
THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS won the Elixir Press 2014 Fiction Award. It is a short story collection that illuminates the beauty that can be found in inconsolable loss. Gautier leads us through terrible reality but leaves us with the promise of hope and redemption. Contest judge, Phong Nguyen had this to say about it: “Literary fiction that grips us and won’t let us go is notoriously rare. To offer us complex emotional experience and riveting narrative momentum, and then to leave the reader in contemplation of its sophisticated themes and subtle weave of objective correlatives… that is the stuff of literary greatness, of art that demands to be read in conversation with the canon…Gautier’s stories have you by the throat, and they surprise you with their mercy.”
- Winner of the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award.
- Winner of the International Latino Book Award in Fiction
- Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Fiction
- Winner of Best Book Award in Literary Fiction
- Winner of Best Book Award in Fiction: Short Stories
- Winner of a Silver IPPY Award
- Winner of a Royal Palm Literary Award
- Winner of the Florida Authors and Publisher’s Association President’s Book Award
- Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction
- Finalist for the John Gardner Award in Fiction
- Finalist for the Paterson Prize in Fiction
- Finalist for an IndieFab Award in Short Stories
- Finalist for an IndieFab Award in Literary Fiction
- Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize
- Shortlisted for the SFC Literary Prize
- One of Bookriot’s100 Must Read Short Story Collections
- Newcity’s Lit50 List: Who Really Books in Chicago
