Spell Heaven

and Other Stories

Spell Heaven
Toni Mirosevich
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NZ$ 37.00
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NZ$ 29.60
Paperback
h209 x 139mm - 208pg
26 Apr 2022 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781640095168
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After moving to a coastal town a gay couple is drawn to a group of outsiders living on the edge of the sea. In Spell Heaven, a linked story collection, a lesbian couple moves to a coast town and unexpectedly finds a sense of belonging with a group of outsiders. Stories include the tale of an undocumented boy' s drowning when a wave pulls him out to sea, an ex-FBI agent' s surveillance of a man who leaves chocolate bars at a tree in a weekly ritual, a mother on meth who teaches a lesson on mercy, and Kite Man, who flies kites from a fishing pole and sells drugs on the side. His motto- When the kites fly, you can buy. The narrator of these stories, raised in a working-class Croatian American fishing family and immigrant community, chooses an early career in labor-oriented jobs. Years later, she finds herself in an academic position in a white-collar world "where the clothes are clean but the politics are dirty. " She questions her own stereotypes about her neighbors and gradually begins to question her life path. Spell Heaven celebrates those who are looking for a human connection in an increasingly isolated world.
"I would like to wrap myself inside of Toni Mirosevich' s words, so that their warmth, vitality, and haunting insights into our humanity will somehow absorb into my thoughts and skin, and I will become a better person. The characters in these unforgettable stories are clever, at times peculiar, but always full of heart. Their experiences stay with you long after you close this book. This is a beautiful collection. " -Aimee Phan, author of We Should Never Meet and The Reeducation of Cherry Truong "To read Spell Heaven is to be swept away to the sea, and fish and neighbors, and a small town on the California coast; to be swept away along through associations and stunning imagery; to be pulled in close by the intimate voice of a good friend who knows how to swear and spool shimmering reams of language. " -Nina Schuyler, author of the award-winning novel The Translator "Deeply evocative, Toni Mirosevich' s Spell Heaven is a compelling collection whose narrator ponders memory, time, and lost worlds. With lyrical insight, she explores the mystery and the margins, the people and places, of the hardscrabble seaside town where she and her wife have made home. A gem. " -Vanessa Hua, Forbidden City "I love these stories-the delicious humor, the unvarnished exchanges, the characters in all of their wonderful, painful complexity, and Toni' s gift for finding meaning in the most ordinary moments of a life. Spell Heaven triumphs again and again. " -Patricia Powell, author of The Fullness of Everything and Me Dying Trial
TONI MIROSEVICH was raised in a Croatian American fishing family in Everett, Washington. She is the author of a book of nonfiction stories, Pink Harvest, winner of the First Series Award for Creative Nonfiction, and five books of poetry. A professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University for many years, she currently resides with her wife in Pacifica, California.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781640095168
Published: 26 Apr 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Counterpoint
Publisher: Counterpoint
Format: Paperback
Height: 209mm
Width: 139mm
Pages: 208

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