Child Craft -- Amy Cipolla Barnes, Paperback

The unmistakable voice of Amy Cipolla Barnes returns in this new hybrid prose collection. To enter Child Craft is to enter a world of memories, both invented and remembered. The speakers of Barnes' stories inhabit a space at times surreal but always vivid, evoking emotional responses that take readers to a place they could not have anticipated from the opening lines. As the title implies, Child Craft explores family relationships-typically from the perspectives of mother and daughter-and the ways that we continually shape them into something that can either help or harm us. These intimate vignettes comment on the many-layered realities of womanhood in modern life in a variety of settings. Whether passing through the wreckage of the Oklahoma City bombing or pretending that a pickle jar could save a missing woman, these stories open imaginative landscapes that will leave you feeling both haunted and a little less alone.

Author: Amy Cipolla Barnes
Publisher: Belle Point Press
Published: 09/05/2023
Pages: 124
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781960215055