Break Away Books

By: Erin Stalcup

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Paperback | 1 July 2016

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Paperback
260 Pages

Age
22+

Grade
17+

Dimensions(cm)
20.32 x 13.34 x 1.5

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In this exquisite debut short story collection, people with unusual jobs and lives embark on extraordinary journeys. A taboo romance breaks the laws of gravity. Albert Einstein writes letters to the daughter he abandoned. A female physicist meets Stephen Hawking in a bar. . . . In the closing novella, All Those Stairs, an elevator operator with a genius IQ rides up and down all day enclosed in a metal box. Author Erin Stalcup explores these lives with remarkable compassion, depth, and insight examining loss and longing, and how our bodies and minds can be both weighted and freed. And Yet It Moves is a powerful combination of both absurdist and realist-stories that literally defy gravity.

Industry Reviews

An engaging collection that takes on the love and loneliness lurking in the bright lights and shadowed corners of the everyday.

* Kirkus Reviews *

The ever-present, everyday magic in Stalcup's debut collection overlays the mundane world like mist and blurs the lines between the prosaic and the fantastic, in stories that examine life and loss. . . Stalcup's fabulist prose-poetry takes readers on tours of today's dreams and Nikola Tesla's memories, her writing surreal but solid enough for the reader to lean against.

* Publishers Weekly *

In Erin Stalcup's And Yet It Moves, science, physics, and electricity (the reliably immutable phenomena that connect our universe) are the background for short stories of startling human disconnection and alienation . . . The beauty in each story is that, though alienation has become the default in each character's life, the desire to connect is ever present, like a beating heart, no matter how bruised.

* ForeWord Reviews *

Often, Stalcup succeeds at making those invisible visible . . . by reminding readers of the inherent humanity in persons, objects, places, animals, or-yes-natural phenomena. . . . Again and again, these stories show the imperfection of human connection, that invisible and yet visible forces at work in our lives.

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