Leaving Safe: Stories

by Katie Arnett

Part One, Like Folks You stories that reflect how the world appeared before the author became a wife and mother.



Part Two, Managing in the stories that escaped from the deepest, darkest of the author’s fears.



Part Three, Fact/ stories fueled by the hazards life heaps on us.



Katie Arnett’s characters have flaws and strengths that make the characters real. Even the world the characters live in seems familiar as she takes her reader through plots with aha moments.

--Ron Talbott

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If you like Karen Russell’s Orange World, you’ll enjoy Katie Arnett’s development of rich characters and intricate plots. --Sandra Spector

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Rabbit Cry - Katie Arnett’s disquieting first-person narrative deftly places us into the troubled mind of a young man with borderline personality disorder. The writing is sharp and evocative, filled with atmospheric details that draws the reader in. It’s also appropriately violent and nicely ‘balances what was wrong with what was right in the moment.’

The Block - a compelling read that examines the current sociopolitical division from the vantage point of a retired woman living in the suburbs. Katie Arnett’s wry sense of humor peppers every word, highlighting the absurd and potentially dangerous behavior of adults regressed to grade school cliques over political dissent. It’s also a sad, all-too-relatable tale, born out of outrage culture and the breakdown of civilized discourse. –Jason Bradbury

262 pages, Paperback

Published April 5, 2022

Reviews

[Krystle Peinado · Rating 1 out of 5]

Part one and part three are unreadable.