The Sorrow Proper: A Novel
(Dzanc Books, 2015)

A group of aging librarians must decide whether to fight or flee from the end of print and the rise of electronic publications, while the parents of the young girl who died in front of the library struggle with their role in her loss. Anchored by the transposed stories of a photographer and his deaf mathematician lover each mourning the other's death, The Sorrow Proper attempts to illustrate how humans of all relations — lovers, parents, colleagues — cope with and challenge social "progress” to tell a story that resists "The End."

• Winner of the 2016 John Gardner Book Prize at Binghamton University

• A review at Library Journal (starred)

• A review at The Brooklyn Rail

• Other reviews at: Quarterly West; Necessary Fiction; Diagram; Tinderbox Poetry Review; The Intentional; The Chattahoochee Review; Pleiades; Tupelo Quarterly