The Loneliness of Glass: Stories

Meet the author on November 14th at 5pm!

"In Furin's sharp prose, women teeter between hope and loss, love and the devastating landscapes of our civilization. . . . A powerful and lyrical debut." - Alexander  Weinstein, author of Children of the New World

A young woman who has lost her half-sister in a tragic murder makes a decision that will doom a dog; a woman becomes obsessed with a cookie jar at an Airbnb; a woman in an interracial marriage returns to her hometown for the first time since she married and must confront what she was taught about race; a woman with unusual powers embeds pieces of dead creatures in the jewelry she creates. Featuring women on the borders, Kathleen Furin's stories show how a deepening understanding of inner truths can challenge one's social belonging, and how this tension between inner and outer selves serves or destroys. Grappling with complicity, the characters in The Loneliness of Glass struggle as they learn how an intent to "save" others is often fraught with hypocrisy and can lead to self-destruction.

Kathleen Furin's work has been published in American Literary Review, Coolest American Stories, So to Speak, Permafrost, Evanescent, Philadelphia Stories, Literary Mama, Mutha Magazine, and Midwifery Today, among others. She holds an MFA from New York University, and edits, consults, teaches, and writes, mostly in Philly.