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Curiosity No. 9 - A Small Catastrophe

$34.00

Not every disaster arrives all at once. Some unfold slowly, reshaping a life piece by piece. A Small Catastrophe gathers three books about exile, grief, upheaval, and the long emotional aftermath of events that cannot be undone.

Not every disaster arrives all at once. Some unfold slowly, reshaping a life piece by piece. A Small Catastrophe gathers three books about exile, grief, upheaval, and the long emotional aftermath of events that cannot be undone.

LESS THAN WHAT YOU ONCE WERE by Aaron Brown

A fragmented memoir beginning with political violence in Chad and moving through childhood, displacement, exile, and the impossibility of returning home unchanged. Episodic, searching, and deeply attentive to dislocation.

ESTUARY by Josh Rank

A novel of grief, secrecy, haunting, and impossible paternity in the wake of a child’s funeral. As memory and longing blur, this story pulls its characters toward the unstable place where the past refuses to stay buried.

BEAT THE BLUES by Mick Bennett

A decades-spanning novel about first love, regret, resentment, reunion, and the long ache of unfinished feeling. Full of music, restlessness, and second chances, it understands that some emotional wreckage takes years to name.