I know Laura -- she is awesome and generous and talented, and I'm not the only one saying this. Her latest collection of short stories,
Safe in Your Head, was published this year by Stephen F. Austin University Press. Here's what I said about it:
The stories in Safe in Your Head are pure conjuration, a trick of light
and magic, words woven and weaving, piercing the veil between. Which is
one of this book's recurrent themes -- the power of story to transcend
even fact or truth, to become them after a while -- all of it tied to
loss and grief, all of it leavened by the raw beauty of Valeri's words.
History is permeable, chimerical, but is it ultimately knowable? As a
reader, your perception shifts with each new story, each new voice, all
of it becoming more than the sum of its parts. There are spells and
recipes and dreams and shifting time, and I enjoyed every second I spent
in these pages.
You can order them through Amazon -- here's the link -- but even better, go to your local independent bookstore and ask for it. You'll be doing the world a good deed.
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