Road of Five Churches: Stories [Paperback]

Stephanie Dickinson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Rain Mountain Press (2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0978610504
• ISBN-13: 978-0978610500
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,319,734 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stephanie Dickinson, raised on an Iowa farm, has lived in Oregon, Texas, Louisiana and now New York City, a state unto itself. Her novel Half Girl (winner of the Hackney Award given by Birmingham-Southern) is published by Spuyten Duyvil. Corn Goddess (poems) and Road of Five Churches (stories) are available from Rain Mountain Press. A new novella Lust Series is just out from Spuyten Duyvil. Her stories have been reprinted in Best American Nonrequired Reading and New Stories from the South, Best of 2008 and 2009. "Between the Cold Hearts and Blue Dudes" was winner of New Delta Review's 2011 Matt Clark Fiction prize judged by Susan Straight. Her work has appeared in many journals including Glimmer Train, Gulf Coast, Westerly, Ontario Review and most recently Blue Lotus Review, Magnolia, Quiddity and The Bitter Oleander. She is an associate editor at Mudfish and along with Rob Cook she edits Skidrow Penthouse. She works days in midtown Manhattan and spends nights in the East Village, where she shares a five-flight walkup with the Skidrow Penthouse staff. Although once a farm girl she's a member of Farm Sanctuary, the ASPCA, and American Fandouk, a veterinary clinic that serves the working animals of Morocco and their human families.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Powerful Read, February 20, 2008

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Mary Kappelt Skol "Mary Kappelt Skol" (Erie, Pa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Road of Five Churches: Stories (Paperback)

I have just finished reading Stephanie Dickinson's THE ROAD OF FIVE CHURCHES, a collection of powerful and often disturbing short stories, each more riveting than the next. In fact, my knees are still shaking. Dickinson's female characters--of various ages, ethnicities, and places--face intense ordeals. In one story, Nia is a young girl being shuffled about the country by a scam artist. In another, Hatchet is a Native American accused by her people of being disloyal. And more: an Iraq veteran who returns home physically maimed; a teen living under a cloud of fallout "death dust" near the Nevada test grounds; a lynching in the deep South. Between stories I had to set the book down and catch my breath. These stories got me in my gut and my dreams. Furthermore, Dickinson knows her craft. Her stories are beautifully written, in a soulful style. I plan to read the rest of this talented writer's works.