Acceleration Hours: Stories

By Jesse Goolsby

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194890862X
• ISBN13: 9781948908627
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 14 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 5