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Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids by Leyna Krow

What do we owe our family and friends in times of wild uncertainty? That is the question the women of this beguiling, darkly fabulist story collect...

Type: Live Event

Date/Time

Feb. 4, 2025, 7 p.m.

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The Spokesman-Review Chronicle Pavilion

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Leyna Krow’s newest short story collection, “Sinkhole and Other Inexplicable Voids” delivers on the fabulist elements fans of Krow’s have come to expect from her writing – an octopus love story originally published in The Spokesman-Review’s 2022 Summer Stories, a baby’s twin appearing out of nowhere, a sinkhole that improves everything tossed into it – while exploring complicated family dynamics and climate change anxiety. Instead of looking to Spokane’s past, as she did in her debut novel, “Fire Season,” “Sinkhole” is a return to the “fiction-science” (a term coined by Spokane author Sharma Shields for Krow’s writing specifically) of her first short story collection, “I’m Fine, But You Appear to be Sinking.”