Is It So? Glimpses Glyphs & Found Novels

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The last work of fiction from acclaimed author Kevin McIlvoy </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Is It So? Glimpses Glyphs & Found Novels</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> showcases McIlvoy's artistic dedication to the irreal the carnivalesque to ghost stories fairy tales the short short form-writing that thrives in the edges margins and borderlands. A retired dance instructor battles a flock of dive-bombing crows for control of his garden. A teacher and his students develop an uncommon bond with a toy parrot. A seeker in the alternate universe of a DMV is dispatched through numberless corridors to see the Clerk of Happiness. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Is It So? </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>tunnels deep into the recesses of long-life experience. With clear-eyed and transformative vision-and confidence in the power of truths left unspoken-Kevin McIlvoy gifts readers found stories excavated from the everyday. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><span></span>Kevin McIlvoy's collection </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Is It So?</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> straddles ordinary vision and unusual sensations. Recklessly marvelously these prose pieces call on us to question reality as they cut a trail through the underbrush of perceptions giving us glimpses of beauty in sunsets crows and phantasms-and an avid discernment of wonder within even the afflicted and the ordinary. -Anita Felicelli author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Chimerica</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Love Songs for a Lost Continent</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Here are wildly innovative stories that reward a second even a third reading. Some are funny others heartbreaking many both. The best are absolutely brilliant. -Richard Russo author of Somebody's Fool </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This dazzling final fiction collection from Kevin McIlvoy dips into and out of sparkling worlds of dark wonder. The glyphs glimpses and found novels in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Is It So?</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-from friendships with toy parrots and holy dogs to high-stakes conversations about cake and sonic landscapes to wild instructions for final dispositions-stunningly evoke the tragic brightness and the comic darkness of lived experience. This is a book that dances and sings and dies and lives. This is a book by a master devoted to the daring art of making the most pressing mysteries-the ones beneath the words-deeply truly fully felt. -Joseph Scapellato author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Made-Up Man</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Big Lonesome </em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book may be the most personal of Mc's prose works. In the autographical bits-disguised as is all autobiography in all his works by veiling distortion and transposition-he is as I see it putting his heart in order. There is reckoning-the jettisoning of romantic notions about self and others and acknowledgment that too often our self-delusions mean we fail to see what's beneath a clear surface. But there is equally present the hard-won wisdom of an elder taking the long view on life's trials and joys and the inevitability of death.-Christine Hale author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Piece of Sky A Grain of Rice</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and wife of Kevin McIlvoy</span></p>