Eckleburg Book Club

Once The Storm Is Over: From Grieving to Healing After the Suicide of My Daughter

The autobiographical confession of a counselor who lost her teen daughter to suicide. What she learned about love and forgiveness changed her life forever. It will change your life, too. “Even though I had been a mental healthcare counselor for years, nothing could have prepared me for the suicide of my 15-year old daughter. Beautiful, …

ECKLEBURG BOOK CLUB | Empty Pockets by Dale Herd

  Empty Pockets  by Dale Herd From high school love notes to a drug runner’s day; from a boy’s first fistfight to the unexpected aftermath of a woman’s first experience of marijuana, Dale Herd’s stories travel the backroads, sending postcards of life as it is lived.   Blurbs “A world takes place here with extraordinary …

ECKLEBURG BOOK CLUB | Deep Zoo by Rikki Ducornet

  Deep Zoo by Rikki Ducornet Rikki Ducornet’s essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy—the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity. Her reading of the world, a gathering of alchemies where the unknown has become visible through the medium of art, be they Borges’s tigers and Cortazar’s lions, desire, mystery, or …

ECKLEBURG BOOK CLUB | Streaming by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

    Streaming by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke An award-winning poet turns to her indigenous background to consider loss, memory, and the fate of the planet.   Excerpt From “Carcass” Split skin stretched over marrowless cage, encased dry tomb, like those strewn through this loess reach, cradling past ever present here, and now you come …

ECKLEBURG BOOK CLUB | Ordinary Sins by Jim Heynen

Ordinary Sins by Jim Heynen From a bar hosting its nightly Sad Hour to the moonlit sandbox of a retired army general, Jim Heynen’s new collection of short-short fiction, Ordinary Sins, presents us with character sketches of strange yet fascinating men and women who resonate far beyond their brief moments in the spotlight. Modeled after …

ECKLEBURG BOOK CLUB | Expect Delays by Bill Berkson

  Expect Delays by Bill Berkson Wide-ranging and experimental, Expect Delays confronts past and present with rare equilibrium, eyeballing mortality while appreciating the richness and surprise, as well as the inevitable griefs, inherent in the time allowed. “Dress Trope” Critics should wear white jackets like lab technicians; curators, zoo keepers’ caps; and art historians, lead aprons to …

ECKLEBURG BOOK CLUB | It Will End with Us by Sam Savage

  It Will End with Us by Sam Savage Savage’s latest novel dismantles the mythic greats of the past–an American South that never was and a mother’s artistic pretensions that never should have been. In the story of Eve, Savage finds a voice that captures both the frustrations of our degraded world and the tender sympathy …

ECKLEBURG BOOK CLUB | Book of Hours by Kevin Young

  Book of Hours by KevinYoung A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. “In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor,” he tells us, in one of the collection’s piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement (“Not the storm / …

ECKLEBURG BOOK CLUB | House of Coates by Brad Zellar

  House of Coates by Brad Zellar Washed up in the shadow of a refinery, Lester B. Morrison, legendary recluse, documents his life in a series of photographs taken with a disposable camera. In a landscape of off ramps, warehouses, and SRO hotels occupied by terminally lonely men, love and faith break in, quietly offering …

ECKLEBURG BOOK CLUB | A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride   Eimear McBride’s acclaimed debut tells the story of a young woman’s relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor, touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma. …