In this collection, Kirschner gives voice to the disturbed and hopeful in her characters' psyches-penetrating the repressed, thrust into the sublime. Brimming with a hallucinatory spirit, these are less stories and more poetic and metaphysical voyages. "BECAUSE THE SKY IS A THOUSAND SOFT HURTS is a master stroke. There is nothing easy about the magic Kirschner casts rather, its complexity serves to illuminate the indomitability of the human spirit in those deep, dark places where it would seem no spirit could survive. I literally found myself taking a deep breath at the beginning and the end of each story, to both steel and re-orient myself. "In her brilliant collection BECAUSE THE SKY IS A THOUSAND SOFT HURTS, Elizabeth Kirschner fearlessly blends poetry, prose, memoir, and master storytelling into an amalgam that lands like a gut-punch to the soul.
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