Meet My Haze

by Meg Tuite

Meet My Haze is filled with stories that live between fire, family, the torque of a heart, and tenderness.

114 pages, Paperback

First published April 6, 2018

About the author

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http://www.megtuite.com

Reviews

[Jacqueline Doyle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Family cremains, scary uncles, abusive husbands, dying mothers, crazy mothers, neighborhood psychos, apparitions in bars, Thanksgiving brawls, pills and booze and sobriety and mayhem and sex and death. These stories are short (anywhere from one to five pages), visceral, surprising, dark, sometimes funny. Every one of them packs a punch. Loved this book!

[Nancy Stohlman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Meg Tuite's work is at times uncomfortably intimate, vulnerable but never precious. Like one of her characters who is being asked by her therapist if she has a history of mental illness, she responds: "I don't know anyone who isn't mentally ill." In Meg's latest book, Meet My Haze, she takes that signature matter-of-fact approach to otherwise dark topics, and her exploration of dysfunction is sober and pragmatic, only hinting at the drama underneath. She can conjure entire histories in an off-hand comment about father's "pasty skin" that another writer would spend an entire book on. And that is Meg's gift--even in the condensed world of flash fiction she has a poet's sensitivity for brevity and density of language and meaning. She is a poet storyteller in prose skin.

[Bill Soldan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Meet My Haze is a gem of a collection, whip smart and razor sharp, the kind of book that comes along all too rarely to remind us of what stories have the capacity to be, a book that commands our attention and challenges as it entertains. Highly recommended on all fronts!

[Robert Vaughan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book absolutely floored me. The way Tuite structures her sentences is like no other living author. Also, her ability to get so inside her characters, and simultaneously point outwards to the larger concerns all around us. This is a must read on the deepest and most purposeful level. Change your life!