Big Kiss, Bye-Bye: A Novel by Claire Louise Bennett (HC) Poetry every house is a flawless

every house is a flawless glass monolith

Pastrana holds the worlds deftly

she sinks into another life: first as a high-ranking courtesan in the seventeenth century

"In The Corner That Held Them

'I am afraid I have something to tell you

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye: A Novel by Claire Louise Bennett (HC) Poetry every house is a flawlessA woman confronts the afterlife of intimacy, in a deeply tender novel by one of our most acclaimed and inventive fiction writers The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all shes left behind. The most insistent are those of Xavier, who has always been certain he knows her better than anyone, better than she