After the Gazebo
By Jen Knox
2015
First Published
4.42
Average Rating
182
Number of Pages
The perfect pitch, the flawless diction, and the aura of calm are all grace notes with which Jen Knox cloaks the troubled waters of the human heart. A Knox tale begins in a recognizable place, but in every one of these brilliant stories, she confounds the readers expectations and ends them in eerily beautiful, untrod territory. The stories in After the Gazebo seduce yet refuse what is coarse; they disdain the slipknot of the obscene, and still they electrify. Exquisite and edgy, they quietly shock. The reader bestows a rock solid trust in this narrators voice and is willing to linger with the energy drinks and flat-screen TVs, the 12 Steps, the cubicles and performance reviews, the bus rides and DMV eye tests. This author does not hide behind the exotic but with great skill and generosity braves the commonplace. These stories go fathoms deep all the way to the shivery core, where the familiar heightens into the sublime, and then into the dazzling. The perceptible world has been sorely neglected in fiction, perhaps waiting for a writer with the craft and courage to take it on. Jen Knox is that writer. After the Gazebo is that book.
Avg Rating
4.42
Number of Ratings
50
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author
Jen Knox
Author · 8 books
Author of The Glass City and After the Gazebo
