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and the ever-present need for empathy

and more—as if the voice of this book has slipped the temporal bounds that tether most voices to a date in history

author of My Life as a Foreign Country

—Edward Smallfield

Book of Gods and Grudges Quitab Editions Someone Bought the House onJessica Walsh's Book of Gods and Grudges tells a tale of generational trauma and transcendence. She declares early on that "My first kin were killers," people for whom "burnout was a luxury" they could not afford. Her speaker struggles through illness and sobriety and grappling with God as a problem she tries to solve as she finds her own calling. The poems are unflinchingly honest and impeccably crafted. They show us what it means to stay "flagrantly