TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phillips,Ashleigh Bryant
TI  - Sleepovers
SN  - 9781938235665
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Spartanburg, SC
PB  - Hub City Press
KW  - Country life
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Short stories
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "Hailed by Lauren Groff as "fully committed to the truth no matter how dark or difficult or complicated it may be," and written with "incantatory crispness," Sleepovers, the debut short story collection by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, takes us to a forgotten corner of the rural South, full of cemeteries, soybean fields, fishing holes, and Duck Thru gas stations. We meet a runaway teen, a mattress salesman, feral kittens, an elderly bachelorette wearing a horsehair locket, and a little girl named after Shania Twain. Here, time and memory circle above Phillips' characters like vultures and angels, as they navigate the only landscape they've ever known. Corn reaches for rain, deer run blindly, and no matter how hungry or hurt, some forgotten hymn is always remembered. "The literary love child of Carson McCullers and John the Baptist, Ashleigh Bryant Phillips' imagination is profoundly original and private," writes Rebecca Lee. Sleepovers marks the debut of a fearless new voice in fiction"--
ER  -