Suspended Heart by Heather Fowler
Date of Review:
Jan.01.2012
Published Work:
Reviewer:
Angela Readman
Source:
The Short Review
Sometimes, just sometimes, from the scrolls of work I read online, I stumble across a story different enough to make me remember a name. Heather Fowler's such a writer. I encountered her work a few years ago online. It's almost impossible not to. Fresh, vivid, her prose is fluid. It flows like a river. Never static. The work moves characters and perceptions. The heart is revealed and swept away. A single can story can be strange, beautiful, moving, dark, then funny. Stories that may seem quirky on the surface of subject matter have layers and deceptive depth. Fowler's anticipated debut, Suspended Heart, is light and enjoyable, funny and intense, magical realism at its strangest, sexiest, and best.
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Suspended Heart by Heather Fowler
"Heather Fowler is a brave writer. She does not blink, she does not falter. There is an integrity in her stories which demonstrates a writer who is committed, confident and sharp, witty and cutting. She cuts deep. She is also very funny, the way Kafka was funny, the way Donald Barthelme was funny. Read her for her pithiness. Read her for how entertaining she is. Let the depth of the stories creep up on you."
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—Corey Mesler
About Heather
Heather Fowler is the author of the story collections Suspended Heart (Aqueous Books, Dec. 2010), People with Holes (Pink Narcissus Press, July 2012), and This Time, While We're Awake (Aqueous Books, forthcoming Spring 2013). She received her M.A. in English...
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Causes Heather Fowler Supports
San Diego Family Justice Center
Heather’s Favorite Books
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
- The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
- A Lover’s Discourse:...





