“The cadence of the sentences, the probing, unsettling voice of her narrators, and the dark conclusions she reaches about the underside of contemporary American life. . . Desmond writes with quiet fury.”
– JESS ROW author of The New Earth
Sara’s debut fiction collection, entitled What We Might Become features stories that explore liminal spaces and experiences: motherhood, grief, adolescence, loss and other moments of becoming. The collection was recently awarded a bronze medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) and was the winner of the Storytrade Book Awards in short fiction.
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“What We Might Become maps the spaces left in the wake of grief, and all the ways we hunger and search, in that aftermath, to connect, heal, and belong. I will return to these haunting, perfect stories, and their evocative landscapes, again and again.”
– ROBIN MACARTHUR author of Heart Spring Mountain
“These stories are vivid and taut, and one of Desmond’s great virtues is that she doesn’t get in the way of her characters. She lets them breathe.”
– STEVE YARBROUGH author of Stay Gone Days
“At the heart of Desmond’s stories are characters living lives of quiet desperation. . . To consider our own quiet desperation, who it causes us to harm, who it impels us to love. You will not shake these stories easily. I certainly have not.”
– NEEMA AVASHIA author of Another Appalachia
Sara Reish Desmond 