Torrents of Our Time

By Christian Fennell

A gifted storyteller with a wide-ranging audience, Christian Fennell challenges the weakness in the heart of all our "truths," while illuminating our dreams and our fears. These are stories that reside in the broken places of us, a stunning dance between our flaws and the beauty and joy of who we are. Taken as a whole, <

• Language: English
• Publisher: Montreal Publishing Company
• Release date: Nov 29, 2023
• ISBN: 9781738654857

Christian Fennell

Christian Fennell is the author of the critically acclaimed collection of short stories, Torrents of Our Time, and the novels, The Fiddler in the Night, and LOVE, GUNS & GOD in America. He was a columnist and the fiction editor at The Prague Revue, and is currently the editor-in-chief of The Nelligan Review.

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