The Big Stuff
Girls in Trouble
Description: Winner of the 2010 AWP Grace Paley Prize for short fiction. Coming out 2011 from University of Massachusetts Press. Check out the announcement .
“A collection - any collection, whether of art, or stories, or Hummel figurines - implies two questions. How are these things similar and, more subtley, how are they different? Girls in Trouble, fittingly, takes difference as its great subject - the differences between men and women, here and there, facts and truth. It's the acute, exacting scrutiny of what lies between these pairings - the history between a man and a woman, the mystery between fact and truth, the "somewhere between where we don't want to be and where we're going," as one character puts it - that truly distinguishes this work. From terse and diverse fragments, Light has assembled a coherent, echoing vision of the world between - a world we all, in our own ways, inhabit.
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--Peter Ho Davies
Where Night Stops
Description: Part Double Indemnity, part Bukowski's Barfly, part generation-X coming of age, the carefully unspooled narrative of Where Night Stops follows one young man's unmapped journey into the international underbelly and the dark heart of the person he thought he would become.
East Fifth Bliss
Description: Morris Bliss can’t catch a break.
Reviews
“This fun read boasts a likable protagonist, other quirky and interesting characters, and vivid and humorous descriptions of New York while also providing some significant social commentary.”
--Library Journal
“Light's prose is careful, rhythmic, and economic; he deftly uses the weight of one sentence as a pendulum to push forward the next. The result is a style that mirrors, and serves to create, the transformation of Morris Bliss.”
--KGB Lit
“An absorbing modern tale about learning to cope with unexpected adversity.
--Midwest Review