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N.M. Kelby is the winner of a Bush Artist Fellowship in Literature, the Heekin Group Foundation's James Fellowship for the Novel, a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, a Jerome Travel Study Grant, and a Jewish Arts Endowment Fellowship. Her poems and short stories have appeared in numerous journals, including Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All-Story Extra and the Mississippi Review. She divides her time between Sarasota, Florida, and Minnetonka, Minnesota.
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Theater of the Stars
Lucienne Kundera, an astrophysicist, has uncovered a black hole as mysterious as the secrets in her life. Lucienne's mother, Helene, is a scientist as well, who was captured during World War II. She eventually escaped and disappeared, reappearing years later in New Mexico with Lucienne. Helene claims to have no recollection of these past events, but when she and Lucienne visit Paris, the city of Helene's youth, Helene is overcome by memories and secrets, and attempts suicide. Lucienne becomes dangerously obsessed with uncovering her mother's past, while at the same time attempting to solve a celestial mystery so dark and dense that its nature cannot be revealed. Theater of the Stars is a finely crafted novel sure to establish Kelby as a storyteller of unique sensitivity and wisdom.
N.M. Kelby's Summer Reading List
The Collected Work of Jane Bowles
by Jane Bowles
Even though her husband Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky) work is better known, Tennessee Williams once said that this was his favorite book. This collection includes Two Serious Ladies, a perfect companion to Paul's Sky. Very exotic summer fare.
Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson
A cyberpunk essential. In this lyrical roller coaster of a book about modern life, Gibson gives us a heroine who's a "cool-hunter", an expensive, intuitive design consultant, who is spooky and obsessive. When she's hired to track down mysterious video footage that someone is secretly importing into cyberspace, it becomes clear that the assignment is more personal --- and, perhaps, more deadly --- then she ever imagined.
A Cook's Tour
by Anthony Bourdain
I love the nasty, wonderfully loopy way Tony chain smokes through life. He reminds me of my Belgian mother, except she's shorter. But they're both lovable.
Cosmopolis
by Don DeLillo
Nobody puts a sentence together like this man. He's edgy enough, and dark enough, to keep me interested.
Stalking the Divine: Contemplating Faith with the Poor Clares
by Kristin Ohlson
I met Sister Mary Thomas, one of the nuns featured in this book, through my last novel. An artist before she took her vows, she was so moved by In the Company of Angels that she painted an eight foot tall canvas of the Madonna and Child for my writing studio. She tells me in her letters that every moment an artist works is a prayer. That thought gets me through the rough spots.
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