Child Craft

<p class=ql-align-justify>The unmistakable voice of Amy Cipolla Barnes returns in this new hybrid prose collection. To enter <em>Child Craft</em> is to enter a world of memories both invented and remembered. The speakers of Barnes' stories inhabit a space at times surreal but always vivid evoking emotional responses that take readers to a place they could not have anticipated from the opening lines. As the title implies <em>Child Craft</em> explores family relationships-typically from the perspectives of mother and daughter-and the ways that we continually shape them into something that can either help or harm us. These intimate vignettes comment on the many-layered realities of womanhood in modern life in a variety of settings. Whether passing through the wreckage of the Oklahoma City bombing or pretending that a pickle jar could save a missing woman these stories open imaginative landscapes that will leave you feeling both haunted and a little less alone.</p><p><br></p>