There Is No Other Way to Worship Them
2018
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4.65
Average Rating
214
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There Is No Other Way to Worship Them is an eerie and mesmerizing collection of short stories set in Mexico and Texas. Each of the collection's nine stories are woven together with themes of violence, mysticism and failures in the pursuit of love. Characters and landscapes slip from one story to the next, teasing readers with a sense of magical realism mastered by Snoek-Brown.
Avg Rating
4.65
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Author
Samuel Snoek-Brown
Author · 3 books
Samuel Snoek-Brown is the author of the story collection There Is No Other Way to Worship Them (Blue Cactus Press, 2018) as well as the fiction chapbooks Where There Is Ruin (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016) and Box Cutters (sunnyoutside press, 2013), and the novel Hagridden (Columbus Press, 2014), for which he received a 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowship. His most recent book is the nonfiction chapbook There Are No False Alarms (Blue Cactus Press, 2020), an account of an active-shooter lockdown at a Pacific Northwest community college. When he's not teaching college or writing fiction, he works for Jersey Devil Press. Occasionally he'll also show up online at snoekbrown.com. He lives with his librarian wife in the Pacific Northwest.
