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    Resolutions: a family in stories
    Resolutions: a family in stories
    Resolutions: a family in stories
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    Resolutions: a family in stories

    By Jen Knox

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    Short story collection set in the Midwest by Jen Knox, winner of the Prize Americana for Prose. Resolutions is a multi-perspective family drama. Molly May is barely a teenager, but she is adept at navigating extremes. Between her self-help addicted and often-intolerant mother, rebellious and idealistic sister, and two younger brothers—Joey, who seems destined for stardom, and Myron, who seems destined for prison—she has her work cut out for her. Meanwhile, Jasmine, a mother of four, is just trying to find some semblance of freedom. She dreams of finding relief from recurring energy 'shifts' that she attributes to a curse. It isn’t until her oldest, Allie, is brutally attacked, and everyone is reunited, that her energy shifts for good. Resolutions is an exploration of freedom and perspective through a coming-of-age lens.
    Jen Knox's short stories can be found in over eighty publications, including The Best Small Fictions 2017, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Quarterly Review, Juked, Literary Orphans, Room Magazine, The Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, and The Saturday Evening Post. Knox is a writing coach and an academic program manager at Ohio State University.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAquarius Press
    Release dateApr 21, 2020
    ISBN9781734827354
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    Jen Knox

    Jen Knox is an educator and writer living in Ohio. Her writing appears in over a hundred publications around the world, including The Best Small Fictions (edited by Amy Hempel), Chicago Tribune, Chicago Quarterly Review, Room Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post. Her collections include The Glass City (Prize Americana winner), Resolutions (AUX Media), and After the Gazebo (a Pen/Faulkner nominee). Jen's chapbook of flash fiction, Dandelion Ghosts, was released in 2021, and she is currently working on a craft book about how to write compelling fiction. Jen's first novel, We Arrive Uninvited, won the Steel Toe Books Award for Prose and was a second rounder of the Launch Pad Prose competition, and made #6 on the Coverfly Redlist for adaptable fiction.

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