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Author_John Englehardt
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college fiction
community trauma narrative
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first person perspective
grief
gun violence
gunman
interwoven perspectives
Kirkus Best Books
literary fiction
mass shooter
mass shooting
multiperspectives
multiple POV
perpetrator
professor
retrospective fiction
school shooter
school shooting
second person perspective
shooting
southern college
southern fiction
trauma
university
violence
Winner of VCU Cabell First Novel Award
Product details
- ISBN 9781938603341
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Dzanc Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novel Award
Winner of the 2018 Dzanc Prize for Fiction
An Indies Introduce Pick
A Kirkus Best Books of 2019 selection
Spanning two decades, Bloomland examines the social roots and
community fallout of a shooting at a fictional southern university. As
the narrative moves between the lives of a disillusioned student, a
grieving professor, and the shooter himself, the psyches and stories of
each character blend and intersect, ultimately asking us to rethink
American myths of selfhood, grief, and violence as a redemptive act.
Profound and deeply nuanced, Bloomland is a dazzling debut that walks in step with the novels of Garth Greenwell, Rachel Kushner, and Louise Erdrich.
John Englehardt is the author of the novel Bloomland, which won the Dzanc Prize for Fiction, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and was named a book of the year by Kirkus Reviews and Electric Literature. He has previously taught writing classes at Seattle University, Hugo House, University of Arkansas, and was a visiting professor at Pacific Lutheran University. He lived in Seattle for many years and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
