An Astonishment of Stars
An Astonishment of Stars
Ryan Woods
, Tanya Blake
, Charly Wreggitt
, Lindsey Drake
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Elaine Grandon
, Benita Hartwell
, cassandra schiemann
, Thelma Ball
, Stephanie Dayes
, Brad MULLER
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Janet Miller
, Marilyn Stanley
, Phoebe Miles
, Rodney Cross
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Beth Dekoker
, Laurie Burns
, Dot Mann
, Martine Fabris
, Vaishnavi Shanoj
, Stacey Shackel
, Sharon Forzley
, Bronya Mazereeuw
, Sandra Lackie
, Chris Carvalho
, Rosa Cross
, Brittney Warren
, Joshua Lewis
, Cheryl Johnson
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Elle Kishia
, Sarah Schwartz
, Alanna Virtue
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Noelle Walsh
, Natasha Andres
, Laura Patterson
, Kate Rutter
, Nicole Maxwell
, Mary Therrien
, Megan Turner McMillan
, Magda Khordoc
, Rose Hately
, Isisus Western
, Agnes Marshall
, Danielle Kat
, Andrea Pole
, Barry Kazimer
, Louise Walsh
, Jennifer Behal
, Cherryl Koylass
, Julie Kaniak
, Holly Elisabeth
, Maureen Brownlee
, Presley Robertson
, Ashley Duke
, Lynn Andrews
, enid wray
, Mike Broderick
, Dorothy Wong
, Jessica Casas
, Joseph Chirayil
, Anita Jones
, Kim Carswell
, Jessica Currier
, Lisa Reynolds
, Diana Richardson
, Sara Conway
, MJ Malleck
, Patricia Johnson
, Reilly Robson
, Patricia McKeown
, Stephen Pinder
, M. Ingibergsson
, Wendy Burleson
, Hailey Slaviero
, Lori Campbell
, Dru Edmiston
, Roland Schigas
, Diane McPherson
, Charles Leblanc
, Alyce Soulodre
, Michelle Arsenault
, Kartik Gupta
, BJ Underwood
, Lesley Sturge
, Maria Mclean
, Michelle Reddick
, Janice Cournoyer
, Ian Skelton
, Emily Johansen
, Sonia Adams
, diana kirkwood
, Laura Reid
, Alicia Biggley
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Lynn Bechtel
, Chris Lantz
, Taylor MaGee
, Karyn Newton
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Kim Cappellina
, Lisa Mallia
, Heather Belliveau
, Kim Patrick
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Syl Grady
, Tanis Anne
, Huguette Settle
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Lindsey Andronak
, Katie Mac Macalister
, Tami Osato
, Jen Bailey
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Alice Meems
, Val Ross
, Ellen Clarke
, Ken Gilmour
, Randi Ann Doll
, Robert Ratelle
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Sophie Wensel
, Stacey Paton
, Katie Kah
, Rita Osullivan
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Meghan Barton
, Christa Seeley
, Hannah Branham
, Andre Labonte
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Hoda Montazeri
, Janet Hosokawa
, Danielle MacKinlay
editor@49thShelf.com
A beautifully written short story collection that charts the lives of racialized women as they navigate their relationships, aspirations, and the burdens of memory and expectations
“Sharply observed and gracefully told, this is a collection shining with all the unexpected delights and defeats that make up a life.” — Anuja Varghese, author of Chrysalis
The wife who uses the name of her white husband in public. The mother who cleans the small-town hospital while her daughter moves to the city to forget their shared past. The well-behaved teen girl who anxiously watches her older sister slip further and further away from their hovering parents. Each of these characters is both familiar and singular, reminding us of women we have been, of our mothers and daughters, neighbors and adversaries.
Kirti Bhadresa is a keen observer of humanity, especially of the BIPOC women whose domestic and professional work is the backbone of late-stage capitalism but whose lives receive so little attention in mainstream culture. An Astonishment of Stars is a collection that sees those who are unseen and cuts to the heart of contemporary womanhood, community collisions, and relationships both chosen and forced upon us.
