Description:
What power does misery play in daily life? In this sorrowful yet intriguing collection of stories, Aimee Pogson explores journeys of suffering through magical realism. While sadness weighs heavy in The Sadness of Spirits, Pogson's writing provokes strong emotions, leaving the reader with hope and admiration as the characters are awakened to the nuance and possibility melancholy can bring.
Review Quotes:
"These fantastic, angelic stories and fairytales are full of astonishing characters and their longing, love, empathy, and strangeness. Each story is perfectly pitched, takes you away and brings you back slightly changed, better, stronger, listening harder."--Deb Olin Unferth, author of Barn 8