Published January 31, 2022
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Chapbook - 80 pages - 5" x 8"
ISBN - 979-8-40927-643-0
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In her debut collection of stories, Zawinski melds flash fiction with memoir. She entertains, piques curiosity, even exacts revenge in characters enjoyable to come to know, whether through love or through hate, all cast on a smooth and well-crafted journey that invites the reader to return to its pages again and again.
“Andrena Zawinski presses pause, and purity appears: a long ago
encounter with a friend chanting, a much younger lover who becomes a
mature woman in 300 words. More social documentaries than pure fiction,
these stories record zeitgeist—lesbian zeitgeist, baby boomer zeitgeist,
coal country trading-sex-for-bread zeitgeist. The narrator in the final
story confesses: ‘I am a convicted eavesdropper.’ That's the real
pleasure in Plumes—getting the skinny the strictly forbidden way by
listening to what you're not supposed to hear.”
—Judy Juanita, The High Price of Freeways, Tartts Fiction Award
“Reading
Andrena Zawinski’s terrific flash fiction/memoirs about love, travel,
mishaps, drinking, and searching is like sitting down at a table at your
favorite coffee shop with your best friend and listening to her
unfolding the best and wildest stories of her life. You never want her
to stop!”
—John Guzlowski, Echoes of Tattered Tongues, Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal
“Andrena
Zawinski's powerful imagery, from ‘the kewpie doll draped in party
beads’ to ‘a candle-toothed smile,’ is as strong in this collection of
flash fiction as in her award-winning poetry. The personality and
panache of the globe-trotting woman at these tales' centers, savoring a
glass of fine wine as much as she does new locales, imbue these stories
with their particular she-ness. Pour yourself a glass of your favorite
to accompany the gorgeous writing of Plumes, which will certainly garner
its own accolades.”
—Jan Steckel, The Horizontal Poet, Lambda Literary Award
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Andrena Zawinski, born and raised landlocked in Pittsburgh, PA, makes the San Francisco Bay Area her home where she lives on a city island beneath a Pacific flyway. An established poet, her writing
has received accolades for lyricism, spirituality, social concern. Veteran teacher of writing, she has been an instructor or writer-in-residence for many public, private, educational, and community organizations.
