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    What It Might Feel Like To Hope
    What It Might Feel Like To Hope
    What It Might Feel Like To Hope
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    What It Might Feel Like To Hope

    By Dorene O'Brien

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    What It Might Feel Like to Hope, the second collection from award-winning author Dorene O’Brien, is a masterful and eclectic mix of stories that considers the infinitely powerful, and equally naive and damning force that is human hope. A couple tries to come to terms with one another as they travel west in the uncomfortable twilight of their youth; a mortician and an idealistic novelist spar about the true nature of death; an aspiring author hopes to impress Tom Hanks with zombies; a tarot reader deals out the future of Detroit. Showcasing her diverse talents, O’Brien offers a panoply of characters and settings that dwells beyond the borders of certainty, in a place where all that has been left to them is an inkling of possibility upon which they must place all their hopes. These stories offer a variety of tones, forms, and themes in which O’Brien displays an amazing range and control of her craft, all while exploring the essential nature of humanity with nuance, empathy, and at times a touch of skepticism.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaobab Press
    Release dateFeb 12, 2019
    ISBN9781936097319
    What It Might Feel Like To Hope
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    Dorene O'Brien

    Dorene O’Brien is a fiction writer and a teacher of creative writing at the College for Creative Studies and Wayne State University in Detroit. She has won numerous awards for her fiction, including the Bridport Prize for her short story “#12 Dagwood on Rye,” Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award for “Riding the Hubcap,” and the New Millennium Writings Fiction Award for “Ovenbirds.” In 2004 she was also awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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