Description:
How to Court Disaster takes us from wide expanses of open ocean to the enclosed spaces of grimy dive bars. Moving headlong into trouble, the characters in these stories discover they possess the inner resources they need to carry them beyond it: pluck, grit, fierceness, hope, and a growing sense of who they are becoming.
Review Quotes:
"How to Court Disaster is a brilliant and audacious collection of stories that careens from an ice fishing cabin to a subterranean river, from a shipwreck on a surreal island to a Filipino nightclub during the Vietnam War. At each stop, Kate Blakinger's sharp, agile prose illuminates powerful insights for her characters as they navigate a broken world where 'something horrible is always happening somewhere.'"--Jess Walter, judge, Iowa Short Fiction Award