The Awakening (2021) by Ian Skewis & the Genius of Multiperspectivity
“It shouldn’t exist but there it is, always on the periphery.”
Where Books and Readers Come Together
“It shouldn’t exist but there it is, always on the periphery.”
“Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it.”
“What do all good stories do… They kill you a little. They turn you into something you weren’t.”
“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos.”
We are, however, all too familiar with the penchant judges and editors have for writers located in the coastal regions of the United States. From the list, the affiliated universities relating to the winners’ education and/or employment were found to be primarily located in the eastern coastal region of the United States: namely the New England Region and the Eastern Coastal Region which had an incredible 92 associated wins, the bulk of those coming from institutions in the state of New York (thought provoking); California, on the west coast, had an accredited 7 wins. Predictably and regrettably, since New York State and its institutions had the most associated wins by far for any state or region, the Pulitzer Prize in Novel/Fiction becomes, without question, the least diverse of all the book awards inside the United States of America.
“And he remembered as one remembers a dream long past how O-lan rested from her work a little while and fed the child richly and the white rich milk ran out of her breast and spilled upon the ground. And this seemed too long past ever to have been.”





