Title: The Sense of
Touch
Author: Ron
Parsons
Published: May 1st,
2013
Publisher: Aqueous
Books
Genre: Literary Fiction – A collection of short
stories
Recommended Age: 15+
Synopsis:
Sprung from the variously lush, rugged, and frozen emotional landscapes of the north country, this luminous collection of stories captures the progress of a diverse ensemble of souls as they struggle to uncover themselves and negotiate a meaningful communion, of any kind, with the world around them.
Sprung from the variously lush, rugged, and frozen emotional landscapes of the north country, this luminous collection of stories captures the progress of a diverse ensemble of souls as they struggle to uncover themselves and negotiate a meaningful communion, of any kind, with the world around them.
A brilliant but troubled Bangladeshi physics student searches
for balance, acceptance, and his own extraordinary destiny after his father
disappears.
When a Halloween blizzard immobilizes Minneapolis, a young
woman is forced to confront the snow-bound nature of her own relationships and
emotions.
During an excursion to an idyllic swimming hole hidden in the
Black Hills, two old friends unexpectedly compete for the affections of an
irresistible, though married, Lakota woman.
Like a mythical expedition to reach the horizon or the quest
to distill truth from the beauty around us, the revelation confirmed by these
imaginative stories – elegant, sometimes jarring, always wonderfully absurd –
is that the very act of reaching is itself a form of
touch.
Excerpt from The Sense of
Touch:
For no reason that she could discern, she put down the novel
and picked up her cell phone. She was lonely, yes, but had been so for as long
as she cared to remember, and nothing seemed to be pressing that particular
bruise, one of many, at the moment. Her loneliness was at a comfortable
echelon: not growing like a tree, nor multiplying as a moss, but just simply
there. A permanent, weathered embedded rock. A boulder in the wheat field. A
bullet inside of a body, too dangerous to remove, around which tissue
grows.
About the Author:
RON PARSONS is a writer living in Sioux Falls. Born in
Michigan and raised in South Dakota, he was inspired to begin writing fiction
in Minneapolis while attending the University of Minnesota. His short stories
have appeared in many literary magazines and venues, including The Gettysburg
Review, Indiana Review, Storyville App, The Briar Cliff Review, Flyway, and The
Onion. His debut collection of stories, THE SENSE OF TOUCH, was released by
Aqueous Books.
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