Tara Lynn Masih Bücher

Exploring themes of disappearance and identity, Tara Lynn Masih's stories traverse diverse landscapes, from the Siberian taiga to postwar Belgium. The characters, including runaways and exiles, confront their pasts and the concept of erasure, revealing that absence can be both physical and emotional. Masih's masterful storytelling blends historical and contemporary elements, emphasizing that nothing is truly lost and that the wilderness of our experiences remains ever-present. This collection resonates with the complexities of existence and memory.

In this spare novelette, acclaimed flash fiction writers James Claffey and Tara Lynn Masih collaboratively create an original tale of loss and love, as The Bitter Kind deftly alternates between Stela, the daughter of a ship’s captain, burdened by her family secrets, and Brandy, a Chippewa orphan, haunted by ghost wolves and spirits. The authors cross genres and borders between historical and contemporary, speculative and realistic, presenting two unforgettable characters on a journey toward their inevitable, fateful destination.

Inspired by the story of Esther Stermer and her family who escaped the Nazi's and survived underground for 511 days.