A Notion of Pelicans
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Author: Donna Salli
Description: On a windblown bluff above Lake Superior sits a fieldstone church. Founded one hundred years ago, after a puzzling encounter with a flock of pelicans left Lavinia with a curious notion, Pelican Church still draws inquisitive souls to its pews with the legend that one solitary bird still circles overhead, watching. These people have notions of their own—a pastor's wife wants a honeymoon, a professor has harebrained ideas, a business owner is in everyone's face, a young actress can do or by anything onstage yet struggles with every real-life decision—and their stories, tucked away for years, unfold and glide onto the pages of Donna Salli's intimate debut novel. The people of Pelican Church are oh-so-human and expose their mix of shifting hopes and obsessions, protected infidelities, and notions gone awry as one October day swings from sunup to sundown under the watchful gaze of a single pelican.
Review:
"Underlying all the everyday lives filling the pages of Donna Salli's majestic, domestic, magical, mysterious A Notion of Pelicans, there are always hints of the most significant powers.
"The book says, 'A person will struggle—she'll fight. She'll do just about anything to avoid making a decision she knows she has to make. We have got to be the most perverse creatures on the planet. Something in the human enjoys misery. It keeps us locked away, some in a mansion, some in a hovel. But then, one day—a day you don't plan, an hour you don't expect—the door opens. You have what you need, or you receive your answer. It's so obvious, and so right, and you even have the wherewithal to carry out what you need to carry out. A big angel with flaming eyes and burnished hair might as well have walked through the wall . . .'
"This is how subtle and shocking Salli's story is. Such a strong book with so many layers and lives at stake in it."
–Dara Weir, author of You Good Thing
About the Author: Donna Salli is a native of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and writes fiction, poetry, essays, and plays. She lives in Minnesota. Among her artistic interests are family, heritage, spirituality, and changing gender roles and other social issues. Visit her at www.donnasalli.com.
ISBN: 978-1-68201-035-8
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Page Count: 184
Publication Date: September 2016
Description: On a windblown bluff above Lake Superior sits a fieldstone church. Founded one hundred years ago, after a puzzling encounter with a flock of pelicans left Lavinia with a curious notion, Pelican Church still draws inquisitive souls to its pews with the legend that one solitary bird still circles overhead, watching. These people have notions of their own—a pastor's wife wants a honeymoon, a professor has harebrained ideas, a business owner is in everyone's face, a young actress can do or by anything onstage yet struggles with every real-life decision—and their stories, tucked away for years, unfold and glide onto the pages of Donna Salli's intimate debut novel. The people of Pelican Church are oh-so-human and expose their mix of shifting hopes and obsessions, protected infidelities, and notions gone awry as one October day swings from sunup to sundown under the watchful gaze of a single pelican.
Review:
"Underlying all the everyday lives filling the pages of Donna Salli's majestic, domestic, magical, mysterious A Notion of Pelicans, there are always hints of the most significant powers.
"The book says, 'A person will struggle—she'll fight. She'll do just about anything to avoid making a decision she knows she has to make. We have got to be the most perverse creatures on the planet. Something in the human enjoys misery. It keeps us locked away, some in a mansion, some in a hovel. But then, one day—a day you don't plan, an hour you don't expect—the door opens. You have what you need, or you receive your answer. It's so obvious, and so right, and you even have the wherewithal to carry out what you need to carry out. A big angel with flaming eyes and burnished hair might as well have walked through the wall . . .'
"This is how subtle and shocking Salli's story is. Such a strong book with so many layers and lives at stake in it."
–Dara Weir, author of You Good Thing
About the Author: Donna Salli is a native of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and writes fiction, poetry, essays, and plays. She lives in Minnesota. Among her artistic interests are family, heritage, spirituality, and changing gender roles and other social issues. Visit her at www.donnasalli.com.
ISBN: 978-1-68201-035-8
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Page Count: 184
Publication Date: September 2016
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