(Text) Messages From the Angel Gabriel - Softcover

Klein, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798989834525

Publisher: Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

"The Angel Gabriel brought me a message, but forgot it the second he saw his first cat video," begins the tumultuous relationship between an angel and a human that is at the core of (Text) Messages from The Angel Gabriel. The novel in verse presents each stage of the complicated, often paradoxical relationship, from initial visitation to inevitable conclusion. Over the course of the narrative The Angel Gabriel ponders the mystery of the jalapeno popper, pretends to be a therapist, and fails to deliver a message. He learns to text, tries to send a booty call, experiences the highs and lows of Black Friday shopping, and throws a baby shower. The vignettes in this novel mimic the rhythms of repeated text messages, memes, movie montages, listicles, and other aspects of modern life. Readers experience a range of emotions throughout the story, from disbelief in the moment when The Angel Gabriel appears on the narrator's doorstep, to the humor inherent in an angel running a frozen yogurt shop, to the melancholy realization that even when you are divine, you are still ultimately human. Between the open and close of the relationship, readers see the scope of that flawed, multi-faceted humanity. In eighteen short vignettes, (Text) Messages from The Angel Gabriel offers readers a unique story of the rise and fall of a relationship that feels timeless and modern, singular, yet worth revisiting, like a parting gift from the ex you've never quite gotten rid of.

About this title

About the Author

Frances Klein (she/her) is an Alaskan poet and teacher. She is the 2022 winner of the Robert Golden Poetry Prize. Klein is the author of the poetry chapbooks New and Permanent (Blanket Seat Press, 2022), The Best Secret (Bottlecap Press, 2022) and (Text) Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth Press, 2024). Her full length collection I Have Never Wanted Another Life is forthcoming from Riot in Your Throat Press in 2025. Klein's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best Microfictions, The Harvard Advocate, The Atticus Review, HAD, and others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gnashing Teeth Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798989834525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40