The stories in William Lychack’s dazzling new collection, The
Architect of Flowers, explore the dear and inevitable distance
between people in loving relationships and find hope in dark
situations. With tiny, precise details, Lychack observes the
overlooked moments of everyday life—the small failings between
parents and children, the long-held secrets in married life.
A small-town policeman brings himself to shoot a family’s injured
dog; an old woman secretly trains a crow to steal for her; a
hybridizer’s wife discovers the perfect lie to bring her family
magically together again. Lychack’s characters yearn to re-enchant
the world, to turn the ordinary and profane into the sacred and
beautiful again, to make beauty serve as an antidote to grief. From
ghostwriter to ghost runners to ghosts in a chapel, these stories
are extraordinary portraits of life’s tender humiliations as well
as its sharp, rude jolts.
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