title: The Glass City and Other Stories
author:  Jen Knox 
description: <div><blockquote><span>Jen Knox is a fearless writer. She can describe a Toledo community decimated by apocalyptic drought, a bakery in Nice during a terrorist attack, a surreal museum of living statues, and make every one of these things feel as real and intimate as your favorite worn-in flannel shirt. Acutely alert to the smallest moments that reveal character, her stories can give you a whole life in a few short paragraphs, laid bare in all its sorrow, glory and restless longing. She can work dialogue, twist a plot, make you laugh out loud, and then break your heart. </span><span>The Glass City</span><span> speaks to the America of now as urgently as Sinclair Lewis or Theodore Dreiser did in their day, but with a touch of magic that only makes the reality beneath that much more haunting. </span><br /><br /><span>-Sheila Black, author of </span><span>Iron, Ardent</span><br /><span></span><br />Jen Knox&apos;s collection, <i>The Glass City</i>, is eco-fiction in that nature disrupts the characters&apos; lives with unexpected and often tragic consequences. But it&apos;s the protagonists--such as the heroine in &quot;The Living Museum&quot; whose addiction to &quot;mediocre and outright horrible poets,&quot; has her searching through their stanzas &quot;...as though [she] were Waldo,...--the conceptualized, hypersexual version&quot;--who will make you pray for their survival. The 16 elegantly crafted short stories in <i>The Glass City</i> resonate in this new, dystopian America.<div><span>-<span>Tina</span> <span>Barry</span>, author of<i>Mall Flower</i> </span></div></blockquote></div>
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