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    Jagged Edge of the Sky
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    Jagged Edge of the Sky

    By Paula Marie Coomer

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    A free black man in London wanders too close to the docks on the wrong day. A woman gives birth alone in a barn loft near an Australian outback crossroads. A mother removes her apron, walks away from her family, and tells her secrets only once. A woman in a California living room sobs as her husband informs the assembled adult children that the youngest is only half-brother to the rest. A mental health agent in Idaho struggles with addiction, bureaucracy, and an affection for one of her charges, a dark-haired transient from Australia. In Paula Marie Coomer's Jagged Edge of the Sky connections of blood and circumstance emerge from a kaleidoscopic narrative in which these and other characters navigate rugged personal terrains of loss and hope. The resulting literary landscape is spare and challenging as the Australian outback, mythical as the American West. With a relentless eye, Paula Marie Coomer flinches from neither the gruesome nor the humorous in this fractured tale of loners, siblings, parents, and lovers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFawkesPress
    Release dateJun 1, 2016
    ISBN9781945419034
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      I freely chose to review this book after it was sent out 3 times and I finally received it in the mail after waiting for months. Jagged Edge of the Sky is about different people who had to choose whether to go right or left and how their choices changed their lives for the good or bad. Mostly it is set in the Australia outback. It is enough to make anyone second guess their decisions and list pros and cons before they take a step, but as a fractured tale, it left a lot to be desired, and I wanted more.