Where We Set Our Easel. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Where We Set Our Easel

"Where We Set Our Easel" is a micro collection of 11 prose pieces following a single narrative arc. The reader tags along when a boy and girl, still in college, meet. The narrative then follows their journey through hardships & kids, a battlefield accident, love lost and love regained.

"Where We Set Our Easel is a marvel, a chapbook-length collection of stories that are as textured and nuanced as poetry yet novelistic in scope. The trajectories of the two main characters are set in motion from the first sentences of the initial story, a meditation on a Van Gogh painting that moves from a future time back to the snapshot of a moment in front of a café that's both sorrowful and ironic in its raw hope. Throughout the book, time is juggled-fast-forwarded and reversed, telescoped and microscoped- as the early, hopeful days of a marriage turn sour and ultimately dissolve. Like any great painting, the story here is in the details, the before and after of love, the intimacy of two lives as they converge and ultimately diverge." - Sarah Freligh, author of A Brief Natural History of Women

Mandira Pattnaik is an Indian fiction writer, essayist, poet, and columnist with over 250 publications, print and digital, including in university journals The McNeese Review, Quarterly West, Penn Review, Timber, Quarter After Eight, Watershed Review, and others. Her themes include home, motherhood, and family, as also climate, strife, migration, marginalization, and social justice, weaved around places and people she identifies with. Mandira's work has received multiple anthology inclusions and nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net in 2020, 2021, and 2022. She serves on the masthead of Reckon Review, trampset, and Vestal Review, and also leads writing workshops. She balances her writing life with vacations in nature with her family.