“The Magpie Funeral is a story of seeking: family, culture, but most of all, understanding-to understand others, and to be understood. The characters that make up Adam Galanski’s tender-hearted, quiet novella find themselves attempting to communicate to one another, but because of their language and cultural barriers, well-meaning is often lost, creating rifts instead of bonds. So, it is in the suspended moments of silence-while harvesting mushrooms, cooking a meal-that an American-born writer and his Polish grandfather are able to connect in the Carpathian forest. Galanski has managed a sweeping family lore in an intimate space, cultivating authentic and arresting imagery that grounded me in this cherished, hallowed land, and I deeply admire Galanski’s ability to write a book that reads folkloric within its modernity. The Magpie Funeral is a poignant lament that stirs the heart-it’s my favorite type of story: one of complexity, compassion, and catastrophic ache.”
-Kalani Pickhart, author of I Will Die in a Foreign Land
Author: Adam J. Galanski-de León
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Querencia Press, LLC
Published: 12/22/2023
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781959118725
Language: English
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