{"product_id":"book-es76","title":"Because the Sky is a Thousand Soft Hurts","description":"\"In her brilliant collection \u003ci\u003eBecause the Sky is a Thousand Soft Hurts\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth Kirschner fearlessly blends poetry, prose, memoir, and master storytelling into an amalgam that lands like a gut-punch to the soul. I literally found myself taking a deep breath at the beginning and the end of each story, to both steel and re-orient myself. There is nothing easy about the magic Kirschner casts; rather, its complexity serves to illuminate the indomitability of the human spirit in those deep, dark places where it would seem no spirit could survive. This is a devastatingly beautiful book.\" \u003cb\u003e-Laura Hurwitz,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisappear Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBecause the Sky is a Thousand Soft Hurts\u003c\/i\u003e is a master stroke. Brimming with a hallucinatory spirit, these are less stories and more poetic and metaphysical voyages. In this collection, Kirschner gives voice to the disturbed and hopeful in her characters' psyches-penetrating the repressed, thrust into the sublime. In its earlier stories, Kirschner brilliantly reinvents the simile, with it granting every sentence a double-life; and the later sections prove not only beautiful in their prose, but with keen sense of narrative drive. A literary achievement, this collection rewards re-reading over and over again.\" \u003cb\u003e-Jonathan Koven,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePalm Lines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e and editor of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eToho Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49366818947376,"sku":"BDes76","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49366819045680,"sku":"ZEes76","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49366819078448,"sku":"ZMes76","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [ZP]","offer_id":49366819176752,"sku":"ZPes76","price":71.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/es76-Square-cover.jpg?v=1780042158","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-es76","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}