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A Little Family
At once evanescent as life itself and beautifully precise, these are remarkably fluid pieces that have both the advantages of fiction and of prose poetry. They lull you, and then surprise you, moving subtly in unexpected directions.
—Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World
and The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell.
Kathryn Rantala’s short pieces are marked by a quiet yet insistent tenacity, a precision of language and vision that make the tiniest details of this journey numinous and profound.
—Dawn Raffel, author of Boundless as the Sky and Carrying the Body.
In A Little Family, quiet scenes open with intricate details and anecdotes then expand into unexpected vistas. Something as simple as a walk to a movie may dissolve into the void or open up to the whole earth, the whole universe. These stories are exponentially bigger than they look, and stun with stealthy grace.
—Angela Woodward, author of Ink and Natural Wonders
A re-envisioning of human life and nonhuman life with a poetics that is thoughtful and surprising and rigorous...
—Daniel Borzutzky, author of The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the National Book Award.
—Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World
and The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell.
Kathryn Rantala’s short pieces are marked by a quiet yet insistent tenacity, a precision of language and vision that make the tiniest details of this journey numinous and profound.
—Dawn Raffel, author of Boundless as the Sky and Carrying the Body.
In A Little Family, quiet scenes open with intricate details and anecdotes then expand into unexpected vistas. Something as simple as a walk to a movie may dissolve into the void or open up to the whole earth, the whole universe. These stories are exponentially bigger than they look, and stun with stealthy grace.
—Angela Woodward, author of Ink and Natural Wonders
A re-envisioning of human life and nonhuman life with a poetics that is thoughtful and surprising and rigorous...
—Daniel Borzutzky, author of The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the National Book Award.
126 pages, Paperback
Published June 19, 2023
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January 8, 2026
A journey with Rantala takes one through art history and anthropology and the lives of writers and into sharp and previously unimagined images and word marriages
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