Crowning: and other Stories Paperback

CROWNING contains six new, dynamic short stories from the author of WE'LL SEE YOU WHEN WE GET THERE. "Sweet Music, Pretty Flowers" re-imagines the nuptials of the author's grandparents in rural Indiana during the Roaring 20s. In "A Case of Necessity", a youthful priest struggling to live out his vocation in the Chilean desert is called to act in a crisis, with painful results. A young film director encounters obstacle after obstacle while attempting to bring to life a sequel to a celebrated police drama in "From the Set of Witness II". And in the stirring title story, a man who has suffered a terrible tragedy makes a chilling discovery on the construction site where he works. Diverse and surprisingly ambitious, Jude Joseph Lovell's second short fiction collection confirms his stature as a bold American voice.