A Lebanese housewife, a former horror-film maker, and a cantankerous Russian librarian are among the inhabitants of the offbeat world found in this impressive debut collection. Stacy Tintocaliss stories take us from a defunct womens shelter off a Missouri country road to the streets of low-income Hollywood, where her characters yearn for the love that is always just out of reach.
The title story explores the conflicted emotions an adolescent boy feels toward a father who obsessively returns to his childhood home. In Too Bad about Howie, a divorced poet finds comfort in stolen moments with his ex-wifes dog. Despite their longing for connection, these characters are victims of their own foibles, trapped in terrifying moments of psychic violence that risk driving away the very people they love.
A Lebanese housewife, a former horror-film maker, and a cantankerous Russian librarian are among the inhabitants of the offbeat world found in this impressive debut collection. Stacy Tintocaliss stories take us from a defunct womens shelter off a Missouri country road to the streets of low-income Hollywood, where her characters yearn for the love that is always just out of reach.
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Stacy Tintocalis is a magician and an artist: with one hand she sculpts the dangerous terrain of secret sorrow, while with the other she swiftly paints the strange healing power of hurt, the potent, heart-sparking heat of desire. Quietly devastating, delightfully surprising, the tales ofThe Tiki Kingare saturated with tender revelations and startling pleasures.
Melanie Rae Thon, author ofSweet HeartsandFirst, Body
These 10 vigorous stories from Tintocalis mine the inner lives of Russian and Lebanese ?migr?s and crummy California divorce?s alike&. Tintocaliss debut is filled with strange characters who maintain puzzling appeal despiteand often because oftheir quirks.
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