The Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing

by Lara Stapleton

Fiction. Lara Stapleton takes us to a world in which everyone is intensely human and vulnerable, whether they are roaming the climate-controlled megamalls of Manila or the desolate streets of a Midwest town... With the precision of a microsurgeon, Stapleton dissects the subtle frustrations of the heart, picking out details and tell-tale cracks that make life seem so fragile, and therefore dear (Eric Gamalinda, editor, FLIPPIN': FILIPINOS ON AMERICA). Streetwise, Funky, irreverent--Lara Stapleton's twelve short stories unerringly map that place in the human heart where exaltation and humiliation, hope and fear, merge.

Genres: Short Stories

196 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1998

Reviews

[Caryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[jen · Rating 5 out of 5]

these were all so delicate hollow n gutting — made me excited again for language. high high rec n treasured addition to chorus of Filipinx voice n story. ooh aah ooh AAH