Graceful Lies: Twelve Stories
From the award-winning author of the memoir FIELDS OF LIGHT and the novel BEFORE comes this collection of twelve short stories. Joseph Hurka takes us into the lives of characters who wrestle with memory and conscience. "Like Chekhov or Carver," the poet Matt Miller has written, of Hurka's novel BEFORE, "Hurka is able to make us feel empathy for these people by showing that these people are us." The stories of GRACEFUL LIES offer us characters who search for certainty, and who sometimes, in moments of illumination, find salvation.