Description
Description
Lauren Ambrite, the National Association of Tourist Attraction Survivors editor of A Green Glow on the Horizon, is a serial collector who satisfies her greedy soul by collecting the stories of fellow Tourist Attraction Trauma survivors starved of significance in a world that consigns to the shadows individuals who "feel too deeply." Lauren knows that, unlike tourists on summer road trips laughing off and leaving behind mermaid shows, jackalopes, and wax statues of the biblical Job, tourist attraction survivors cannot simply walk away. Instead, they wander troubled through these fabulist tales. Standing behind this earnest but sometimes scary editor is author Dawn Burns, a writer who dares to expose the complicated, often contradictory yearnings and compulsions, griefs and grievous missteps of fellow human beings.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"A circus sideshow of small-town roadside attractions . . . tender, funny, and masterful narrative."
-Bonnie Jo Campbell, National Book Award Finalist
"With delicious humor and a masterful perception of the strangeness of the human condition, Dawn Burns writes characters you will never forget because they will haunt your dreams and follow you on road trips."
-Cait West, author of Rift
"These stories-testaments to joy and love, testimonies of insecurity and fear-ask you to bear witness to a great sewing together of threads into a perfectly unique, odd, unsettling-yet-comforting quilt of humanity."
-RS Deeren, author of Enough to Lose
"As daring as a high-wire act, and Dawn Burns walks that wire with no pauses and no missed steps. . . . wildly inventive, serenely wise, and delightfully zany.
-Valerie Sayers, author of The Age of Infidelity
"This book is a Matryoshka of Defamiliarized Detours. Turns out there is a there there, and you can get there from here."
-Michael Martone, author of Plain Air: Dispatches from Winesburg, Indiana
"No writer I know of captures the essential surrealism of childhood and adolescence better than Dawn Burns. . . . A Green Glow on the Horizon is a compelling concoction of reality and compassionate, shimmering imagination, breathed into life on the page by a master storyteller."
-Jan Maher, author of Heaven, Indiana
"In turns wryly funny and heart-twisting, these compelling vignettes revel in their raw oddities."
-Colleen Alles, author of Close to a Flame
"Takes your breath away by its unashamed love of our ever-yearning ever-misfit humanity and the stories we attempt to make of ourselves."
-Mary Catherine Harper, author of The Found Object Imagines a Life
"A polyphonic ode . . . teeming with modern Midwestern fairytales and conspiracies alike that locate the fullness in the seemingly desolate, find the zaniness in the seemingly banal, and leave you basking in the afterglow."
-Elise Jajuga & Christine Peffer, A Novel Concept Bookstore, Lansing, Michigan
"A Green Glow on the Horizon is gently and lovingly curated-steeped with earnestness, hopefulness, copious amounts of humanity, and just the right infusion of whimsy."
-Scott Harris, Everybody Reads Books and Stuff, Lansing, Michigan
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