Книга We Imagined It Was Rain: Stories
Confirmed
- October 3: Review in the New York Times Book Review
- October 6: Chapter 16 (Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga) Review
- September 26: Interview at Daily Yonder
- Interview with WUTC (Chattanooga)
- Interview with WWNO (New Orleans)
- Essay at Literary Hub
- Reading List at Electric Literature
- Trades: Kirkus, Publishers Weekly Confirmed
- Submitting to B&N Discover Great New Writers
- Bookseller digital and mailing campaign to fans of Ron Rash, Bonnie Ann Mason, etc
- Influencer outreach via our buzz team on Instagram, promotional giveaways with paper ephemera
- Paid social media and digital promotions
- National print, digital, and broadcast review coverage in magazines, newspapers, online publications, NPR, literary news outlets, and more Targeted outreach for Southern media book coverage
- Placing LitHub or Electric Literature essays
- Substantial tour to Southern bookstores, pandemic providing, especially in Tennessee
- Writing conferences, workshops, and in conversation readings
Hailed by ZZ Packer as "a master of tone, detail, and imagery," Andrew Siegris's debut collection, We Imagined It Was Rain, is a love song to Tennessee. These loosely connected stories are imbued with tenderness, seriousness, and a deep understanding of the human spirit. A young man moves to the mountains and builds an heirloom chest in the wake of his son’s death; a town official must make the decision to execute a circus elephant; two siblings help their father commit suicide; a preacher picks up the pieces of his ruined church, and his marriage, after a devastating flood; locals share stories of the girl with eyelashes so long she can braid them. Siegrist demonstrates careful attention to the smallest moments, to the rain on a windowpane, to individual mementos passed down through generations, in this far-reaching and thoughtful collection.
We Imagined It Was Rain is the winner of our 2020 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize.