Gregory Howard teaches fiction writing, contemporary literature, and film studies at the University of Maine, USA. His work has appeared in Web Conjunctions, Harp & Altar, and Tarpaulin Sky, among other journals. He lives in Bangor, Maine, USA.
"...a haunting take on one life on society's margins." --Kirkus
Reviews
"Howard's enchanting Hospice obeys its own magical inner logic with
excellent prose and a sadness that will split open hearts. You have
in your hands a story that is inquisitive, gripping, and
triumphant."
--Deb Olin Unferth, author of Revolution, Vacation, and Minor
Robberies
"In Gregory Howard's beautiful, brilliant first novel, stories
spill out of other stories to swim, swirl, dance (sometimes
giggling, sometimes smiling gravely), and collide. One thinks of
the Calvino of Invisible Cities, to be sure, but also of Bruce
Chatwin and his In Patagonia, in each of which a highly inventive
voyager goes wandering through the world and/or through the world's
endless tales of itself. Still, deeply felt loss is the engine of
the ludic impulse in Hospice, and the many games played, rituals
enacted and songs sung by its characters evoke, with grace and
power, our oldest truths, our most challenging conundrums, and the
exhilarating ebb and flow of our sleep-wrapped lives."--Laird Hunt,
author of Kind One and Neverhome
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