E-raamat: The Suicide Club: Stories

These are sad, smart, and wickedly witty stories. Grahams lost souls, uneasy in their skin and in their circumstances, linked by grief, demonstrate the way the tectonic shift of a loved ones suicide sends out aftershocks for years. Get to know the members of The Suicide Club; they feel real to the core. -- Kim Addonizio * author of The Palace of Illusions * Graham's people seek solace in ways grim, odd, desperate, and even hilarious; they are at all times the wretched ghosts of the ones they've lost, yet cannot escape. And somehow we love them, grieve with them, as Graham does not allow us to escape this, either. She is a writer of extraordinary, incisive courage, sparing her characters and her readers nothing. No mercy, but all heart. -- Brad Watson * author of Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives * [ A] poignant and darkly humorous look at life after loss. . . . Each characters battle with faith, family, and personal responsibility is rendered with Grahams signature sharp wit. * Publishers Weekly * Without question, Grahams closely linked stories, amounting almost to a novella, are skillful. -- John Mort * Booklist * This short book is powerful and the stories are moving, and it is a quick read. Toni Graham does an excellent job not making it a complete sob story, but showing that these people have lives; even if it is in the middle of Oklahoma. -- Kevin Winter * San Francisco Book Review * The collection is a winner of the Flannery OConnor Award for Short Fiction, no doubt for the clarity of action and the complexity of characters. Many of the stories within the collection are divided into episodes of present action and memory, offering rich and in-depth histories of the characters. These characters and their struggles are palpable, revealing truths of reality in the way good fiction can. -- Allyson Hoffman * NewPages *