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Thank Your Lucky Stars: Short Stories

Sherrie Flick

Full of wit and humor, Sherrie Flick's second collection introduces readers to big worlds and major characters in short, sometimes very short, stories.

From a woman buying corn who gets more than what she bargained for to a cowboy down on his luck, these complex stories serve up love and loss, longing and heartbreak, and cruelty and tenderness in poetic images and the most satisfying of moments.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Autumn House Press
  • Publish Date: Sep 4th, 2018
  • Pages: 200
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.20in - 0.60in - 0.55lb
  • EAN: 9781938769351
  • Categories: Short Stories (single author)WomenLiterary

About the Author

Sherrie Flick is the author of the short story collections, I Have Not Considered Consequences, Thank Your Lucky Stars, and Whiskey, Etc. (all published by Autumn House Press), the novel Reconsidering Happiness (University of Nebraska Press), and the essay collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist (University of Nebraska Press). Whiskey, Etc. was the winner of the Foreword INDIES bronze prize and named one of Entropy's Best Fiction Books of 2016. A story from Thank Your Lucky Stars was performed at Symphony Space and aired on NPR's Selected Shorts. She served as coeditor of the anthology Flash Fiction America (W. W. Norton) with James Thomas and John Dufresne and was series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018 with guest editor Aimee Bender. She is the recipient of a 2023 Creative Development Award from The Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from The Creative Nonfiction Foundation. She lives in Pittsburgh where she is a senior lecturer at Chatham University and a member of Shiftworks' Creative Corps.

Praise for this book

In Thank Your Lucky Stars, Flick has arranged 50 stories of varying length--the shortest a paragraph, the longest 21 pages--into four numbered sections. The settings are often suburban towns in the West or Midwest, and Flick uses crickets, birdbaths with calm water, and deer heads as recurrent images throughout to underscore the agonizing quiet of such towns. Most of the stories are about love, but more specifically, finding someone to make a home with. Domestic spaces are the stage, and everyday objects, like two tin coffee cups, resonate with meaning. http: //www.smokelong.com/book-review-thank-your-lucky-stars-by-sherrie-flick/--Cheryl Pappas "SmokeLong Quarterly" (8/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)
These stories target a range of ages with something in each that many people have faced at one point or another. There's a little something unexpected in each of Flick's stories that remind us to 'Thank [Our] Lucky Stars' for the good present in any situation. https: //medium.com/anomalyblog/sherrie-flicks-thank-your-lucky-stars-for-more-hope-d93f97747f8a--Cheyenne Heckermann "Anomaly" (9/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)
Many of the stories are character-driven instead of action-driven. These aren't stories about world-changing events, but more about individual people coming to a self-realization. The interesting concept with these stories is that these acts of self-reflection feel just as important as the high-tension dramatic events seen in other popular novels and movies. https: //medium.com/the-coil/book-review-sherrie-flick-thank-your-lucky-stars-sean-faulk-61037c693888--Sean Faulk "The Coil" (9/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)