Overview

MONARCH: Stories subverts the reader' s common perceptions about how love can heal, how loss and suffering can transform, and how every character deserves a second chance. America' s city scars, sewers, alleyways, and bars are landscape to their wars, as characters heal and transform under wind turbines and on open roads, in golden cornfields and with the wails of Chicago blues. Heroes in this collection are the marginalized, the sufferers, the down-trodden, the misfits, the wanderers, and the wounded, shaped by grief but not defined by their scars.

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"""Superb, original and thoroughly alive with heartbreak and wonder. Tobias is electrifying."" - Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and author of This is How You Lose Her ""Full of empathy and rendered in searing, visceral prose, MONARCH shines brightly. In eleven vivid, affecting stories, Tobias turns her careful attention toward the strugglers and strivers among us--the result is heartfelt and immersive."" - Kimberly King-Parsons, author of Black Light ""The stories in MONARCH are raw and gritty and always real. Emily Jon Tobias gives voice to the outsiders, the misfits, and the broken. I can't say enough great things about this debut collection."" - Willy Vlautin, author of Lean on Pete and The Night Always Comes ""Women's past and present mingle in Tobias's stories where sentences are loaded with momentum and crafted with astonishing descriptions and surprising beauty. Regrets and disappointments haunt forlorn characters in this collection as they push through the pain in needles and whiskey, in babies that float, in the car on the highway with the windows down-maybe all at the same time, forever fleeing but never able. MONARCH is packed with troubles, richly drawn and wrenched from alleys, from mattresses, lest we forget."" - Thea Swanson, author of Mars"

"""This remarkable debut collection that traverses many of the parts of America that are unseen, or at least, unseen in this way, and gives us a wealth of material to engage with and themes that make a collection worth biting into - loyalty, betrayal, happiness and deep sorrow, addiction and victory and a reclamation of selves against the nearly impossible grind of modern American life."" - Chris Abani, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas ""Superb, original and thoroughly alive with heartbreak and wonder. Tobias is electrifying."" - Junot D�az, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and author of This is How You Lose Her ""Full of empathy and rendered in searing, visceral prose, MONARCH shines brightly. In eleven vivid, affecting stories, Tobias turns her careful attention toward the strugglers and strivers among us--the result is heartfelt and immersive."" - Kimberly King-Parsons, author of Black Light ""The stories in MONARCH are raw and gritty and always real. Emily Jon Tobias gives voice to the outsiders, the misfits, and the broken. I can't say enough great things about this debut collection."" - Willy Vlautin, author of Lean on Pete and The Night Always Comes ""Women's past and present mingle in Tobias's stories where sentences are loaded with momentum and crafted with astonishing descriptions and surprising beauty. Regrets and disappointments haunt forlorn characters in this collection as they push through the pain in needles and whiskey, in babies that float, in the car on the highway with the windows down-maybe all at the same time, forever fleeing but never able. MONARCH is packed with troubles, richly drawn and wrenched from alleys, from mattresses, lest we forget."" - Thea Swanson, author of Mars"

Author Information

Emily Jon Tobias is an American author and poet with her debut story collection, MONARCH, forthcoming by Black Lawrence Press in May, 2024. She is an award-winning writer whose work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, along with other honorable mentions, and has been featured in literary journals such as Santa Clara Review, Talking River Review, The Opiate Magazine, The Ocotillo Review, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review, Big Muddy, and elsewhere. Midwestern-raised, she now lives and writes on the coast of Southern California. She holds an MFA in Writing from Pacific University Oregon.

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