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Also by Laird Hunt:

Float Up, Sing Down, February 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Zorrie, February 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Neverhome, May 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Neverhome, September 2014
Hardcover / e-Book

Float Up, Sing Down
Laird Hunt

Bloomsbury Publishing
February 2024
On Sale: February 6, 2024
224 pages
ISBN: 1639730109
EAN: 9781639730100
Kindle: B0CKHRQH82
Hardcover / e-Book
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Small Town | Contemporary Novella / Short Story

Laird Hunt's masterful story collection capturing one summer's day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award Finalist Zorrie bloomed.

Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her mother she was going to the Galaxy Swirl, but that's not where she's really headed on her new Schwinn five-speed.

Float Up, Sing Down is the story of a single day. But in that day, how much teeming life! The residents of this rural town have their routines, their preferences, their joys, grudges, and regrets. Gossip is paramount. Lives are entwined. Retired sheriffs climb corn bins and muse on lost love, French teachers throw firecrackers out of barn windows, and teenagers borrow motorcycles to ride the back roads.

Each of the fourteen stories of Float Up, Sing Down follows one character's day in the life in one of Hunt's most beloved and enduring landscapes. In the tradition of Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Elizabeth Strout, and Edward P. Jones, this is a symphony of souls, a masterful portrait of both loneliness and community by one of our great limners of American experience.

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