Brace Yourself edition by Alysia Angel Literature Fiction eBooks
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Brace Yourself is the first collection of short stories by Alysia Angel. It is about the people you see but don't want to see. It is about the secret lives of those people, the darkness and fire brightness of the terrible mind, and the longing we all feel but cannot name. Brace Yourself is for the twisted, and everyone is a little twisted. Even Grandma.
Brace Yourself edition by Alysia Angel Literature Fiction eBooks
If you haven't read her poetry, you're missing out on something incredible. But the link was deleted so you'll have to use Google!)Alysia Angel is one of my favorite writers. I don't know that I'm able to articulate what her writing does for me but I'll try.
Her poetry is soul wrenching and beautiful and alternates between breaking my heard and healing it. She writes about class and poverty and how they shape those of us at the bottom, trying so desperately to claw our way out. When she writes about the south you can feel the humidity and hear the sound of ice clinking in a glass of sweet tea, Her writing is honey and steel. Pain and joy. Shame and redemption. Her writing makes me believe in happy endings.
She writes about people who are never written about. The poor, the desperate. The ones who don't bother to put things up on the walls because we know we'll be moving again soon. The ones who steal food. The ones whose clothes are held together with safety pins and prayer. The ones who sell their services, their bodies, their prescriptions to make rent and keep the power on for just one more month. The ones who know the difference between "broke" and "poor." And she does so without mockery or judgment. Because she's one of us too.
She makes me view my poverty as a badge of honor. Proud of every single one of us fighting this fight. Proud of our ability to juggle and to hustle. Proud of our ability to survive.
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Brace Yourself edition by Alysia Angel Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
"The thing about a person who is rarely seen is, we know how to be even less seen when we want to. We can will the world to pass us by and the world is rarely ever the wiser." (excerpt from Brace Yourself, by Alysia Angel)
Alysia Angel's Brace Yourself A Collection of Short Stories is a deep look into the cracks, around the corners, down the darkest alleys of humanity. She takes us gently by the hand and sweetly, slyly, walks us along the razor's edge of society where desire and disgust, love and hate blend together seamlessly. Her writing is evocative and visceral, blending the grotesque and the beautiful into a gracefully graceless world of raw, unbridled, unapologetic characters who refuse to stay hidden on their own turf. She masterfully uses her poetic style and stark, almost brutal, honesty to strip us bare on forbidden territory, and immerse us in the secret worlds we pass by every day. And it is impossible to look away.
Do you ever read a book where the characters are all familiar, like your neighbors or the people you used to work with or your old friends from back in the day? And then while you're reading you realize that no one, ever before, in all of time, has ever written a book about these familiar people that made them seem so normal and right instead of completely crazy or a joke? That's what this book is like. Plus, it's damn good writing.
You must read this book. Brilliant short stories that create a snapshot of lives that lingers on your tongue and in your brain. Brave, honest, and uglybeautiful. You won't be sorry for the first read or the 100th.
If you are new to her work, Alysia Angel's writing is gentle and fierce all at once. Here, she is effortlessly stringing us along, waiting for our own consciousness to snap at the realization of old wounds and new possibilities. Brace Yourself is relevant literature, without pretending to give a damn.
If you like your fiction not just perverted but also sick and twisted (as I do), I highly recommend this anthology. Alysia Angel takes old-ball collections of personalities, places and perversions and makes them so believable you'll start looking at your neighbors differently. To say these characters are deviant is to use understatement the size of a skyscraper. They do the things you and I (probably) only daydream about, they follow the impulse, strike the match, take that fatal last step across the line between safe and sorry. But are they sorry? Mostly not, I'm thinkin'. The author is especially adept at writing from the perspective of the observant outsider, so much so that it's not hard to conclude she inhabits that role naturally.
"The thing about the person who is rarely seen is, we know how to be even less seen when we want to. We can will the world to pass us by and the world is rarely ever the wiser. You will walk by us as we shadow along crumbling walls and feel a chill."
These stories may be fiction, but they are steeped in truth, the truth and reality this talented writer has lived, experienced and created anew for us to enjoy. Or not. I'm not sure enjoyment is the goal. Seeing, witnessing, may be closer but you'd have to ask her.
"Frank stepped out sniffed the morning air. He looked at Margie sitting on her stoop. The two regarded each other with a lazy sort of hatred, the kind that glazes over year after year, eventually becoming hardened amber between them."
Some of Angel's characters have lodged themselves in my brain like parasites, stealing thought cycles as I ruminate on them and the lives they lead before and after the snippet we are invited into. Her stories are populated by an ardent creepiness that reminds me a bit of Clive Barker and John Waters and something else, something like a itch that won't go away but you're embarrassed to scratch at in public. I'm reminded of Geek Love, where the most unlikely characters and motivations are normalized and made sensible in the context within which they live. Angel shines a strong light into the nooks and crannies of that which we call abnormal, deviant and strange, but these characters have much more in common with us than we do with the illusion of "normal" our culture force feeds us.
"Her red angry stretch marks screamed across her side and his mouth filled with saliva from his wanting tongue..."
The stories in this collection are a train wreck you can't look away from and I think that's because we can relate all to well to the all the little things, all those moments when you're glad no one is watching, all the perversions you're sure you alone are tormented with. But is it true that no one's watching? After reading this collection of stories, you may find yourself paying more attention to those you haven't been paying attention to.
If you haven't read her poetry, you're missing out on something incredible. But the link was deleted so you'll have to use Google!)
Alysia Angel is one of my favorite writers. I don't know that I'm able to articulate what her writing does for me but I'll try.
Her poetry is soul wrenching and beautiful and alternates between breaking my heard and healing it. She writes about class and poverty and how they shape those of us at the bottom, trying so desperately to claw our way out. When she writes about the south you can feel the humidity and hear the sound of ice clinking in a glass of sweet tea, Her writing is honey and steel. Pain and joy. Shame and redemption. Her writing makes me believe in happy endings.
She writes about people who are never written about. The poor, the desperate. The ones who don't bother to put things up on the walls because we know we'll be moving again soon. The ones who steal food. The ones whose clothes are held together with safety pins and prayer. The ones who sell their services, their bodies, their prescriptions to make rent and keep the power on for just one more month. The ones who know the difference between "broke" and "poor." And she does so without mockery or judgment. Because she's one of us too.
She makes me view my poverty as a badge of honor. Proud of every single one of us fighting this fight. Proud of our ability to juggle and to hustle. Proud of our ability to survive.
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