Close Call - by Kim Suhr (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A door-to-door salesman's visit shows Carol a new side of her mother and threatens the security they both had taken for granted; a woman finds out what happens when we're "too busy to die"; a woman in her fifties celebrates her newly augmented body parts; four friends try to breech a chasm in their friendship by planning a reunion; and a researcher examines his relationship to creativity in a world where it has been deemed a mental illness. Carefully crafted, surprising, and humane, the stories in Kim Suhr's Close Call unveil emotion in tight spaces, hearts in turmoil, and the searching soul of the Midwest.

Review Quotes

"A fresh take on love, hate, jealousy, faith, loss, fear, conformity, and disappointment."

-Wisconsin Writers Association

"Kim Suhr sucks you right in, comfy as can be, until you didn't see it coming opens a window on human nature, and there is a piercing little poke right in your heart."

-Sandra Scofield, National Book Award finalist

"Close Call gets us close-we slip in and out of various bodies just in time to start squirming. . . there's not a single wasted page."

-Maggie Ginsberg, author of Still True

"Kim Suhr is a natural storyteller, and the dazzling variety of tales in Close Call is all the proof a reader needs."

-Robert Lopez, author of Good People

"The clarity, humor, and inventiveness of Kim Suhr's work is a joy."

-Jane Hamilton, author of The Excellent Lombards

"Generous stories with great heart and tenderness toward the human condition."

-Anne-Marie Oomen, Michigan Author Award Winner

"A finely rendered collection of stories told in a sure and strong voice."

-Patricia Ann McNair, author of Temple of Air