Sibs by Nathan Leslie

Releases October 2013.

Press kit forthcoming. Pre-Orders [forthcoming] will be made available on the Publications & Store page.

Nathan Leslie’s six previous books of short fiction include Madre, Believers, and Drivers. He is also the author of Night Sweat, a poetry collection. His first novel, The Tall Tale of Tommy Twice, was published by Atticus Books in 2012. His short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines, including Boulevard, Shenandoah, North American Review, and Cimarron Review. He edited short fiction for Pedestal Magazine for many years and is now the fiction editor for Newport Review. He was also series editor for Best of the Web 2008 and 2009.

About the Collection:
The thematically intertwined stories in Nathan Leslie’s Sibs, the author’s seventh collection, center around brothers and sisters. Often gritty and vivid, we see siblings bond, scrap, and everything in between. Many of these intense stories revolve around childhood and the stresses that siblings must overcome; others are concerned with brothers and sisters doing their best to make do with often tenuous, dysfunctional situations. Playing chess in a local park, two brothers are confronted by a strange young girl. Two sisters struggle with shopaholic behavior. A brother and sister defy spousal abuse. In 1970s America, two sisters move to a hippie commune and experience the unexpected. Sibs is set in remote corners of California, run-down Western Maryland towns, and in post-Industrial wastelands: this is America barely clinging to its sense of family and purpose. Stories from Sibs were originally published in North American Review, Gargoyle, Prick of the Spindle, StorySouth, JMWW, and Scribble.