Stories by Danielle Sosin
April 1, 2000 5 x 7.5 176 pages 978-1-56689-100-4
Stories that explore the inner landscape of grief and desire, and discover emotional truths along the way.
The moods in Garden Primitives range from still to explosive, the language from poetic and sensual to coarse. What is common among them is a passionate allegiance to both the heart and the intellect.
The cinematic eye of Sosins roving narrators leads us through the snowy and suburban decay of a family on a perfect winter night; into the narrow but honest mind of a farmer being bowled over by urban sprawl; on the beach, where a womans life becomes hyper-focused on the survival of a turtle nest; around a campfire on a north woods vacation where the gaps between parents and children, friends and lovers widen; and through gardens both vegetable and glassed where the language is as fertile as what grows there. Garden Primitives is a debut to a voice and vision concerned with the Eden in and around us, and with our clumsiness and grace in the face of the unknown.
About the Author
Danielle Sosin received a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship in 1999. One of her short stories, What Mark Couldnt See, was read on National Public Radios Selected Shorts. Garden Primitives is her first book-length publication. She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.