What Luck, This Life - 9781938235429
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Product Details
Author:
Kathryn Schwille
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
224
Publisher:
Hub City Press (September 18, 2018)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781938235429
ISBN-10:
1938235428
Dimensions:
5" x 8"
Case Pack:
32
File:
PGW-LEGATO-Metadata_Only_Publishers_Group_West_Customer_Group_Metadata_20250917130147-20250918.xml
Folder:
PGW
List Price:
$24.95
As low as:
$21.46
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
C
Audience:
General/trade
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
60
Weight:
12.8oz
Imprint:
Hub City Press
Overview
The Columbia space shuttle and its contents rain down on the people of Kiser, Texas, in Kathryn Schwille’s imaginative debut novel set six weeks before the invasion of Iraq.
What Luck, This Life begins in the aftermath of the space shuttle’s break-up, as the people of Piney Woods watch their pastures swarm with searchers and reporters bluster at their doors. A shop owner defends herself against a sexual predator who is pushed to new boldness after he is disinvited to his family reunion. A closeted father facing a divorce that will leave his gifted boy adrift retrieves an astronaut’s remains. An engineer who dreams of orbiting earth joins a search for debris and instead uncovers an old neighbor’s buried longing.
In a chorus of voices spanning places and years, What Luck, This Life explores the Columbia disaster’s surprising fallout for a town beset by the tensions of class, race, and missed opportunity. Evoking Sherwood Anderson’s classic Winesburg, Ohio and Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, the novel’s unforgettable characters struggle with family upheaval and mortality’s grip and a luminous book emerges—filled with heartache, beauty and warmth.
