Luminaries
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- ISBN 9781632430939
- Weight: 142g
- Dimensions: 141 x 179mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2021
- Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Agnes has been drifting away from herself. People look through her, her husband doesn’t understand her, and lately, she’s begun losing the sensations in her body. When a tube of shoplifted lipstick awakens her back to life, an impulse for stealing emerges that leads her to a court-ordered service at a camp for grieving children. While initially hoping only that the time there will help her give up stealing, Agnes soon learns that she can use objects to connect grieving children with the spirits of their parents. She must navigate the choice between using her compulsion for her own pleasure and helping the bereaved. Luminaries is about the things we take and about the things that are taken from us. It asks what it means to exist in lives filled with loss, to reach for the things we hope will restore us, and the risks we’re willing to take to ward off yearning—both in our material lives and social lives.
Luminaries is the winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Novelette/Chapbook Prize, selected by Kellie Wells.
Luminaries is the winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Novelette/Chapbook Prize, selected by Kellie Wells.
Kristin Keane has published work in the New England Review, Normal School, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is a doctoral fellow at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco.
