Winner of the Gold Medal
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Mary Cappello:
I can’t remember the last time I felt so much in the presence of poetry while reading a collection of short stories. In The Grass Labyrinth, ways of making art (aesthetics) run up against modes of relatedness (the art of living); minor art takes a character through periods of major challenges or life-altering events; and major art emerges amid the quietness of simple acts. Here is a book to return to again and again for its delicacy of insight, its purity of tempo, its immeasurable heart.
David Huddle:
Charlotte Holmes is the magician of moment-making. Out of plain words, she can make a scene look and feel so real a reader has the sense of living it--and of remembering it later as lived experience. The Grass Labyrinth is moving and unforgettable.
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Cary Holladay:
In the tradition of Chekhov, Charlotte Holmes lays bare the destructive passions that upend the lives of a charismatic painter, his wives, lovers, and children. The interwoven stories probe their ungovernable hearts, revealing secrets and betrayals that ring through generations. Shimmering and evocative, The Grass Labyrinth is a contemporary classic.
Ito Romo:The sprigs of grass in Charlotte Holmes’ The Grass Labyrinth break slowly through the snow covered grounds of the book’s pages, fertile with love and loss. In the end, we find ourselves walking through a Borgesian garden of both infinite pain and infinite beauty.
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