2020 Reading the West Book Awards, Longlist for Fiction2020 Foreword INDIE awards, longlist From the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, I d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them, Jesse Goolsby s Acceleration Hours is a haunting collection of narratives about families, life, and loss during America s twenty-first-century forever wars. Set across the mountain west of the United States, these fierce, original, and compelling stories illuminate the personal search for human connection and intimacy. From a stepfather s grief to an AWOL soldier and her journey of reconciliation to a meditation on children, violence, and hope, Acceleration Hours is an intense and necessary portrayal of the many voices living in a time of perpetual war.
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From the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, Id Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them, Jesse Goolsbys Acceleration Hours is a haunting collection of narratives about families, life, and loss during Americas twenty-first-century forever wars. Set across the mountain west of the United States, these fierce, original, and compelling stories illuminate the personal search for human connection and intimacy. From a stepfathers grief to an AWOL soldier and her journey of reconciliation to a meditation on children, violence, and hope, Acceleration Hours is an intense and necessary portrayal of the many voices living in a time of perpetual war.