{"product_id":"9781936747856","title":"Elegy on Kinderklavier","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The stories in \u003ci\u003eElegy on Kinderklavier\u003c\/i\u003e travel around the world and to the moon, and along the way they tell you everything they know. Arna Hemenway writes a fiction whose satisfactions are not merely narrative but musical, and it is a pleasure to listen to his stories as they rise into song.\"—Kevin Brockmeier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories in \u003ci\u003eElegy on Kinderklavier\u003c\/i\u003e explore the profound loss and intricate effects of war on lives that have been suddenly misaligned. A diplomat navigates a hostile political climate and an arranged marriage in an Israeli settlement on a newly discovered planet; a small town in Kansas shuns the army recruiter who signed up its boys as troops are deployed to Iraq, falling in helicopters and on grenades; a family dissolves around mental illness and a child's body overtaken by cancer. The moment a soldier steps on an explosive device is painfully reproduced, nanosecond by nanosecond. Arna Bontemps Hemenway's stories feel pulled out of time and place, and the suffering of his characters seem at once otherworldly and stunningly familiar. \u003ci\u003eElegy on Kinderklavier\u003c\/i\u003e is a disquieting exploration of what it is to lose and be lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArna Bontemps Hemenway\u003c\/b\u003e's fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSeattle Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEcotone\u003c\/i\u003e. Originally from Kentucky, he holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and Truman Capote Literary Trust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154458525936,"sku":"9781936747856","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936747856_p0.jpg?v=1763660128","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936747856","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}