Leonard Nash's stories are tangential moments, vividly rendered snapshots of isolation in which people are connecting or not connecting, thinking of where they'd rather be, some getting there and some not. You Can't Get There From Here explores how we respond when the best of times and the worst of times coincide. In the midst of loss, Nash's characters, no matter how desperate, do occasionally reach out, and find their lives changed forever.
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"No one should be able to write this damn good the first time out. Leonard Nash's You Can't Get There From Here is more than a promising debut by a gifted fiction writer; it's a mesmerizing collection of the first order. I was flat knocked out! The stories here are full of wisdom and wit, tenderness and honesty. The book is funny and as serious as a heart attack. The people in Nash's Miami seem to know they're not going to win, but if they struggle, they just might break even. Nash breathes life into his characters, and his characters will breathe life into you. Do yourself a favor, buy this book, pour yourself a drink, settle into a comfy chair, open the book, and begin your marvelous and heartbreaking journey. You won't be leaving the chair any time soon." ---John Dufresne, Johnny Too Bad, Deep in the Shade of Paradise, Love Warps the Mind A Little, Louisiana Power and Light, The Way that Water Enters Stone
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"Silver Medal Winner for General Fiction, 2007 Florida Book Awards"
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LEONARD NASH received a Florida Book Award Silver Medal for his debut collection, You Can't Get There from Here and Other Stories (Kitsune Books, 2007). Nash holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Florida International University. His work has appeared in the South Dakota Review, The Seattle Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Gulf Stream Magazine, Miami Magazine, and elsewhere. A resident of Hollywood, Florida, Nash is a freelance writing and editing consultant and a Realtor. He has taught creative writing at Florida International University and the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College. He served two years as a "General Fiction" juror for the Florida Book Awards.
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In You Can't Get There from Here, Nash's prose treads gracefully along a thin line, somehow finding a balance between loneliness and wit. Nash's world is a place filled with pink shag potty covers, poodles with brown crud stains, Fanta bottles and Planet of Apes playing cards--a place populated with characters who suffer as they search desperately for some semblance of happiness and redemption. Unlike most contemporary fiction, this is a trip that's well worth the ride. Buy it now. You won't be sorry.
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