Please join us in welcoming author Patricia Ann McNair to the store on Saturday, June 16th from 1-3 p.m. as she signs her collection of short stories, Temple of Air.
About Temple of Air: Linking the lives and tales of a place and its people through tragedy
and consequence, blind faith and redemption, this collection of finely
tuned short stories spans three decades to present a portrait of working
class Americans. From babysitter and bus ticket salesman to
construction worker and cult leader, the residents of New Hope—whose
lives intersect after a tragic accident during a summer carnival—chase
dreams and suffer disappointment against the subtle backdrop of a
Midwestern landscape. The stories are unapologetic yet magical, bringing
to life the daily struggle under the weight of war, natural disaster,
illness, grief, and greed, even as the residents enjoy the comforts of
solace, friendship, sex, love, ice cream, and the comics found wrapped
around bubblegum.
Booklist calls
it “strongly plotted” and “hard hitting.” ”McNair’s plainspoken yet
imaginative, complexly unnerving, and haunting stories raise essential
questions of fate and will, appearances and truth, guilt and
compassion.”
—chase
dreams and suffer disappointment against the subtle backdrop of a
Midwestern landscape. The stories are unapologetic yet magical, bringing
to life the daily struggle under the weight of war, natural disaster,
illness, grief, and greed, even as the residents enjoy the comforts of
solace, friendship, sex, love, ice cream, and the comics found wrapped
around bubblegum. 
