The Heaven of Animals

By David James Poissant,

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Named one of Amazon's Best Short Story Collections of 2014
One of Atlanta Journal Constitution's 9 Best Books of 2014
Best Short Story Collection of the Year, Tweed's Magazine
Winner of GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction
2014 LA Times Book Prize Finalist
Winner of the Florida Book Awards Silverā€¦

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1 author picked The Heaven of Animals as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I recently met the author at a writing workshop. He was my facilitatorā€”he did an excellent job! Whatā€™s more, after the week of reading and critiquing each otherā€™s fictional stories I decided to read this book. Wow! Beautifully written. The stories are sometimes shocking, sometimes sad but always worth the time! I feel lucky to have met this author and have had him help me improve my first novel which I'm completing now

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