About this item
Winner of the PENHemingway Award for Debut FictionBarnes Noble 2014 Discover Great New Writers Selection, Third Place The stories in Elegy on Kinderklavier 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 childs body overtaken by cancer. The moment a soldier steps on an explosive device is painfully reproduced, nanosecond by nanosecond. Arna Bontemps Hemenways stories feel pulled out of time and place, and the suffering of his characters seem at once otherworldly and stunningly familiar.
About the Author
Hemenway lives in Waco, Texas, with his wife, Marissa, daughter, Bluma, and son, Maccabee. He enjoys reading, writing, sports, exercise, video games, and cake.
