Description
About the Author
Jessica Bryant Klagmann studied writing in Fairbanks, Alaska. Every good idea she's ever had came while she was running, so she tries to stay within sight of a mountain or canyon trail at all times. She and her family live in northern New Mexico, but they also spend time in Maine, where they're restoring a hundred-acre forest. Her work has been published in environmental journals like Whitefish Review and Terrain.org. This is her debut novel.
Reviews
"An original and inherently fascinating novel by an especially gifted author, This Impossible Brightness by Jessica Bryant Klagmann will have a particular attraction for readers with an interest in family life/women's domestic life novels whose deft crafting raise them to an impressive level of literary excellence." -Midwest Book Review "At once haunting and visionary, Jessica Bryant Klagmann's This Impossible Brightness asks us to consider ghosts in their many forms-literal ghosts, the ghosts of grief that follow all of us, and the ghost of a present-but-disappearing earth amid climate devastation. In the face of sweeping loss, this novel resists despair by weaving an expansive web of interconnectedness and also of hope. Klagmann's debut is both wildly imaginative and gorgeously moving." -Anne Valente, author of Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down "In the eyes of This Impossible Brightness, humans bear a particular mark of distinction, one that's spiritual or psychological rather than physical. We are the species that tries to change direction in midair; we attempt, impossibly, to take our fall and transform it into an ascent. Jessica Bryant Klagmann's writing seems motivated by this same desire. Everywhere in her novel's pages, you sense some force yearning to turn the future into the past-to forestall the autumn of the world, spin it around, and allow it to burst into spring. Through her focus on this effort, she produces a feeling that's sustained and powerful, a clear-eyed grief leavened by a mad hope." -Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Ghost Variations "Part ghost story, part adventure yarn, part death meditation, Jessica Bryant Klagmann's This Impossible Brightness is a tour de force of storytelling. Spinning us through multiple time frames and character perspectives, Klagmann captures the beauty and largeness of nature and our tenuous place in the world. A wonderful debut novel from a remarkable new voice." -David Nikki Crouse, author of Copy Cats and The Man Back There
Book Information
ISBN 9781662513114
Author Jessica Bryant Klagmann
Format Paperback
Page Count 319
Imprint Lake Union Publishing
Publisher Amazon Publishing