In life, some events can injure, physically or psychologically; others can shatter. In Minnows, a child and his younger brother get out of school for the summer only to have their world come crashing down around them, shards raining across the text.
Jonathan Lyons spent twenty years as a foreign correspondent and editor for Reuters, much of it in the Islamic world. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Monash University and lives in Portland, Oregon. His publications include The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization and (with Geneive Abdo) Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First-Century Iran.
In life, some events can injure, physically or psychologically; others can shatter. In MINNOWS: A SHATTERED NOVEL, a child and his younger brother get out of school for the summer, only to have their world come crashing down around them, shards raining across the text.