Catch, Release
by Adrianne Harun
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Pub Date Nov 01 2018 | Archive Date Oct 10 2018
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Description
In Catch, Release, Adrianne Harun’s second story collection, loss is the driver. But it’s less the usual somber shadow-figure of grieving than an erratically interesting cousin, unmoored, even exhilarated, by the sudden flight into emptiness, the freedom of being neither here nor there. In this suspended state, anything might happen—and it does. Harun’s most realistic stories are suffused with mystery, while her more fantastic tales reveal startling truths within the commonplace. In diverse settings that include, among other places, a British Columbian island, a haunted Midwestern farmhouse, a London townhome, and a dementia care facility overpopulated with dangerously idle guardian angels, characters reconfigure whole worlds as they navigate states defined by absence.
In “The Farmhouse Wife,” a young couple, struggling financially, takes up residence in a near-abandoned farmhouse, only to be joined by an inconvenient roommate, a woman whose own bereft state proves perilously seductive. A kleptomaniac father gets caught in one of his petty thefts in “Pearl Diving,” propelling his two sons out of one life into another, perhaps more appropriate, one. In “Madame Ida,” a family of little girls steadily invades a woman’s life as she puzzles out the mysteries of a missing sheriff-turned-cult-leader and the absence of her own son. And in the title story, two teenagers face off against the hurtful lies of an ancient con woman who is mining a widow’s grief for her own ends.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
“Adrianne Harun’s short stories are riveting. Vividly imagined, like fever dreams, haunting and original and elusive. It’s as if each story contains — or generates—a mystery, that will linger long in the reader’s mind.” — JOYCE CAROL OATES
"Catch, Release is
brilliant. Masterly brilliant. Tour de force brilliant -- the
crystalline prose, the characters who dive off the page and splash down in the
reader's heart, the islands and water and sunlight and sand and trees that are
as astonishingly real as last night's dreamscape, the moral complexities and
contradictions of human beings in contest with the devil, the pitch-perfect
sounds of desperation and joy and terror and triumph and unspeakable loss, the
smells of fish and salt and sand and musty old farmhouses. As a whole --
and these wonderful stories demand to be read as a whole -- Catch,
Release will break your heart and then mend it and then break it
again. This book will endure." — TIM O'BRIEN
"In this masterful and singular collection, the familiar—always uncanny—is
fraught with risks: the risks of parenting, of adolescence, of infancy and
senescence ; of feeling too much or too little. Adrianne Harun’s vivid
evocation of a faltering world reveals a black hole lurking at the heart of
everything from the dining room to the family car." —RIKKI
DUCORNET
"The mastery in these stories
lies in their understanding of the spookiness and sneakiness of the human
heart. How extraordinary this book is, how full of superb writing, how
unpredictable on every page." —JOAN SILBER
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781421426693 |
| PRICE | $19.95 (USD) |
