Overview

Award-winning writer Kathryn Gahl brings her careful eye and lyrical detail to the two dozen stories in Yes, No, I Don't Know, a luminous patchwork of Midwestern strivers, lovers, and dreamers in thorny circumstances. A wife finds her husband hanging from a barn beam. A physician receives an unorthodox patient request. A widower opens his wife's dresser drawer and comes undone at the sight of her panties. A teenage boy grapples with reporting his friend's unspeakable act. An inmate tells how to end things. Controlled, tender, and masterful, Gahl weaves despair and hope into a single thread of healing grace.

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Reviews

""Striking, original, and precise."" -Larry Watson, New York Times Bestselling Author ""These stories cement Gahl's place as a Wisconsin literary luminary and an important voice in Midwestern letters."" -Nickolas Butler, author of A Forty Year Kiss ""Kathryn Gahl is fearless; she'll go where she pleases."" -Ron Rindo, author of Love, Death, and Giants ""Complex, morally grey, and always compelling."" -Wendy Wimmer, author of Entry Level ""Gahl's stories hum with the music of enmeshment, in all of its bright and bittersweet notes."" -Rebecca Meacham, author of Feather Rousing ""The stuff of rural myth come to life."" -Kim Suhr, author of Close Call ""American tales that flash like summer lightning."" -Barry Wightman, author of Pepperland

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Kathryn Gahl is the author of The Yellow Toothbrush (2022) and The Velocity of Love (2020), both recipients of Outstanding Achievement Awards from the Wisconsin Library Association. Her fiction has been published in Notre Dame Review, Glimmer Train, Wisconsin People & Ideas, and elsewhere. For her poetry she was awarded the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award from the Council of Wisconsin Writers in 2019.

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