Tyrant Books is now taking pre-orders for their second full-sized novel, Michael Kimball's Us.
I greatly enjoyed Michael's most recent novel, Dear Everybody, as well as the MLP chapbook that one could say belongs alongside it on your bookshelf (and both do absolutely belong on your bookshelf).
When discussing Michael's story from Unsaid IV with editor, David McLendon, I observed that the word that popped into my head when reading that piece was sensuality. I think Kimball captures something about men and women and love that sneaks past other writers. To read the description of this novel from the Tyrant site:
A husband wakes up to find that his wife has had a seizure during the night. The husband calls an ambulance and his wife is rushed to a hospital where she lies in a coma. By day, the husband sits beside his wife and tries to think of ways to wake her up. At night, the husband sleeps in the chair next to his wife’s bedside dreaming that she will wake up. He wants to be able to take her back home. Years later, the story of this long and loving marriage is retold by their grandson. He wants to understand his grandmother’s life and death, what it meant to his grandfather, and what it means to him. He wants to understand – in his own words – “how love can accumulate between two people.”
has me thinking I'll enjoy this one just as much if not more.
The wonderful Luca DiPierro has created a book trailer for Us based on a single sentence.
Us from Michael Kimball on Vimeo.
That trailer is amazing.
Posted by: Matthew Salesses | March 25, 2011 at 09:06 AM