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The Instinct for Bliss: Short Stories
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Winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize New York Times Editor's Choice Book |
praise "Vitality passes like a torch through such stories...."
"Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance. The Instinct for Bliss is a natural wonder."
"Melissa Pritchard writes with a moral authority and lyrical dexterity that propels her fiction into those places closest to the human heart."
"In The Instinct for Bliss Melissa Pritchard seems to have located the sub-atom of passionate love and split it, putting a fearsome lot of heat and love at the heart of our sorry affairs. The book both abrades and uplifts, slays and saves me."
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From the young cook in "Sweet Feed," who prepares a gourmet last supper for a prisoner on death row; to the neglected, anorexic girl in "Eating for Theodora," who discovers spiritual nourishment in the faith of her elderly Hispanic neighbor; to the world famous horticulturalist in "The Erotic Life of Luther Burbank," who remains perplexed by the desires of the women in his family--all of these stories demonstrate a longing to travel beyond safe boundaries and outside easy assumptions. Buy Now: Amazon.com Listen to a review by Charles McNair which aired January 2008 on 1690 WMLB. |
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