Susan Taylor Chehak

The Minor Apocalypse of Meena Krejci (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"It begins like a stormwith that pensive heavy stillness of dead air pressing in, with a soft rustle of the wind just barely stirring in the trees, a bruising over of the summer sky, a somber gray and yellow horizon glittery with lightning, bloated full of thunder, swept by sheets of rainit begins when old man Krejci bumps his head. And thenlike that same storm spent, blown past to leave the ground and the air around feeling new and fresh and washed crisp cleanthe next morning when Meena peeks into her father's sun-spilled bedroom to find that he has not moved, but is still lying on the bed with his head flat back on the pillow, in just exactly the same way she left him there eight hours before, everything will be changed..."

It begins when Meena Krejci, not sure what to do and fearing she'll be blamed for the injuries that have caused her father's death, panics and takes flight, driving west across Nebraska and into Colorado, where she encounters an apocalypse-predicting madman, his captive sisterthe troubled young woman in whose release Meena will create a violent version of rebirth for herselfand a bear.

Told through alternating narrativesa portrayal of the last few days of Meena's life and an account of the events in the past that have brought her to where she is nowthis is the story of a woman running away from home for the first time and the strong, nearly universal desire to shed one's identity to become somebody else.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Foreverland Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310275609
• Artikelnr.: 72344673

Autorenporträt

Susan Taylor Chehak is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop and the author of several novels, including The Great Disappointment, Smithereens, The Story of Annie D., and Harmony. Her most recent publications include two collections of short stories, This Is That and It's not About the Dog, as well as a new novel, The Minor Apocalypse of Meena Krejci.

Susan has taught fiction writing in the low residency MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles, the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, the University of Southern California, and the Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa.

She grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has spent a lot of time in Los Angeles, lives occasionally in Toronto, and at present calls Colorado home.