Book Readings & Signings: Tamara Ralis & Valerie Philbrick-DeBrava

Book Reading & Signing: Tamara Ralis – Dreamers of Earth and Aether: 33 Stories
Set in landscapes, cities and rooms, these very short prose portraits direct the reader’s gaze towards something encompassing, far beyond what the narratives recount. The voices of an artist, a dying soldier, a scholar, a child, an employee, a monk and a young girl speak. Simultaneously surreal and existentialistic, their psyches traverse the chasm between the 20th and 21st century, leaving a poetic trail. The thoughts of each person characterized evoke an alternate imaginary space, where waking life and the dreamed can no longer be differentiated. The narratives vibrate as the visible and the invisible intertwine, disrupting the certainty of a single plane of existence. SCIENCE FICTION – SHORT STORIES

Book Reading & Signing: Valerie Philbrick-DeBrava – The Gathering: An Academic Novel (String Theory)
This novel dramatizes the challenges of postmodernism from feminist and Christian perspectives. Its central (non)event, portrayed by a narrator and a competing character, is a reconciliation that captures both the longing for and impossibility of closure in a fragmented, ever-expanding universe. LITERARY FICTION