The Sound of Holding Your Breath
eBook - ePub

The Sound of Holding Your Breath

Stories

  1. 156 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Sound of Holding Your Breath

Stories

About this book

The residents of The Sound of Holding Your Breath could be neighbors, sharing the same familiar landscapes of twenty-first-century Appalachiaā€”lake and forest, bridge and church, cemetery and garden, diner and hair salon. They could be your neighborsā€”average, workaday, each struggling with secrets and losses, entrenched in navigating the complex requirements of family in all its forms.

Yet tragedy and violence challenge these unassuming lives: A teenage boy is drawn to his sister's husband, an EMT searching the lake for a body. A brother, a family, and a community fail to confront the implications of a missing girl. A pregnant widow spends Thanksgiving with her deceased husband's family. Siblings grapple with the death of their sister-in-law at the hands of their brother. And in the title story, the shame of rape ruptures more than a decade later.

Accidents and deaths, cons and cover-ups, abuse and returning veteransā€”Natalie Sypolt's characters wrestle with who they are during the most trying situations of their lives.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Diving
  7. Flaming Jesus
  8. Ghosts
  9. Get Up, June
  10. At the Lake
  11. Home Visit
  12. Handlers
  13. Love, Off to the Side
  14. Wanting Baby
  15. Lettuce
  16. My Brothers and Me
  17. What Would Be Saved
  18. The Sound of Holding Your Breath
  19. Stalking the White Deer
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Reading and Discussion Questions