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Sunshine Falls

Kyle David Torke

Publisher: RosettaBooks

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Summary

A collection of autobiographical essays that glean meaning from everyday life by the poet and author of Tanning Season and Still in Soil.  Sunshine Falls is Kyle David Torke’s beautiful, elegiac account of living in a world rich with mystery and impermanence. In twenty far-reaching, story-driven essays, we follow the author from his first love in sixth grade to the demise of his marriage thirty years later, experiencing the full potency, confusion, and promise of human interaction, loss, and triumph. In crisp, sparkling prose, Torke shines focused light into the cracks of human experience, causing us to laugh—and wince with recognition—at the awkwardness of growing up, the joys of love, the pangs of loss, and the death-defying adventure of life as we know it.
Available since: 03/08/2017.
Print length: 268 pages.

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