The Ruin of Everything - Softcover

Stapleton, Lara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 173449655X ISBN 13: 9781734496550

Publisher: Paloma Press, 2021

Synopsis

FINALIST, AMERICAN LEGACY BOOK AWARDS

"The real pleasure of this book lies in Stapleton's irrepressible approach to narrative structure. Long, loose chains of events culminate in volta-like swerves.... these endings refashion early meanderings in thrilling flashes." -The New York Times

"Stapleton's complex narrative structure will undoubtedly bedevil and enchant while wrestling with fundamental questions about identity." -Politico

"In Lara Stapleton's The Ruin of Everything, stories dealt with issues of bifurcated identities and self-confidence or the lack thereof in the lives of Filipino Americans and how they negotiate their conflicting, slippery claims on the New York and/or Manila states of mind." -The News International

"An Anaïs Nin of late capitalism's bohemia, Lara Stapleton writes like an oracle of an underworld-of miscegenated loves and translocated broken souls-of characters unaware or ruinously conscious-and she inscribes that world in us with lust and wit and always that deep joy that encompasses sorrows bred in the bone, the race, the colors of one's skin, the heart, and of course the tongue: the word." -Gina Apostol, author of Insurrecto

"With a keen eye for human ambitions and human frailties, Stapleton brings us the comic turmoil of characters steeped in the sorrows and absurdities of modern life; reaching for connection and erring, reaching for home and missing. Brimming with hard-edged loneliness, these stories reach into the underbellies of our deepest hopes and fears." -Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, author of My Heart Underwater

About this title

About the Author

Lara Stapleton is the author of the short story collection, The Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing (Aunt Lute), an Independent Booksellers' Selection and a Pen Open Book Committee Selection. She is the recipient of a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant for Writers, a two-time winner of the University of Michigan's Hopwood Award for Fiction and winner of the Columbia Journal Fiction Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Paloma Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 173449655X
• ISBN 13: 9781734496550
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126