Garden for the Blind
"A collection of extraordinary stories by an extraordinary writer, "Garden For the Blind" is very highly recommend for community General Fiction and academic library Literary Fiction collections." ~ Midwest Book Review, Fiction Shelf
"Each of Kelly Fordon's stories is perceptive, memorable and moving. I loved this book, and I will be haunted by its recurring characters for some time to come." ~ Julia Glass, Author of the National Book Award-winning,Three Junes.
"Garden for the Blind is one of the most intricately and beautifully constructed works of fiction I've read. It is full of characters and interiors that are so fully realized they are impossible to think of strictly on the page. This is both an intense and page-turning adventure over which you will linger with awe at the precision and grace of its sentences and images. Kelly Fordon is a writer to admire, and to keep an eye on, and this work is one I'm never going to forget." ~ Laura Kasischke, author of Mind of Winter and Space in Chains.
"A strikingly atmospheric and psychologically acute collection of linked stories about the long-lasting reverberations of a childhood accident."
~ Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation
"Fordon's beautifully rendered stories chart the terrible tensions created by polarities in race, gender, and social class and the efforts of one young woman in particular to transcend those divides and figure out what it means to be a moral human being."
~ Eileen Pollack, author of Breaking and Entering. Former director of the master of fine arts program at the University of Michigan.
Links to Garden for the Blind Interviews and Reviews
The Common review by Tyler Baldwin July 2, 2016
Foreword Reviews' 2015 Indiefab Finalist
IPPY Bronze Medal for the Short Story
Michigan Radio Interview with Cynthia Canty, June 2015
Goodreads review by Michael Kitchen, May 2015
Midwest Book Review, Fiction Shelf, May 2015
How/What/Why Interview by Linda Sienkiewicz, May 2015
Authorlink Interview by Ellen Birkett Morris, May 2015
C and G News Interview with K. Michelle Moran, April 2015
Charlotte Viewpoint Interview by Leah Worthy, March 2015
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