{"id":131,"date":"2024-07-24T21:23:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T01:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:02:20","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/?page_id=131","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-203\" src=\"https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SL-2024-website-3-1-300x79.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SL-2024-website-3-1-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SL-2024-website-3-1.png 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!-- Google tag (gtag.js) --><a href=\"#IYLLT\">Imagine Your Life Like This<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#TIAOLE\">The Invisible Art of Literary Editing\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#TSITMAM\">The Story I Tell Myself About Myself\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#TTYW\">Trip Through Your Wires<\/a><br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=G-D5DTY3VJTQ\"><\/script><br \/><script><br \/>\n  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];<br \/>\n  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}<br \/>\n  gtag('js', new Date());<\/p>\n<p>  gtag('config', 'G-D5DTY3VJTQ');<br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\" id=\"IYLLT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Layden_cover_SHARE-664x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-145\" style=\"width:456px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Layden_cover_SHARE-664x1024.jpg 664w, https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Layden_cover_SHARE-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Layden_cover_SHARE-768x1185.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Layden_cover_SHARE-996x1536.jpg 996w, https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Layden_cover_SHARE-1328x2048.jpg 1328w, https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Layden_cover_SHARE.jpg 1652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Imagine Your Life Like This<\/strong><\/em><br>Stories<br><a href=\"https:\/\/uwpress.wisc.edu\/Books\/I\/Imagine-Your-Life-Like-This\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Wisconsin Press<\/a>, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Order from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/imagine-your-life-like-this-sarah-layden\/19670177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bookshop&nbsp;<\/a>|\u200b&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/imagine-your-life-like-this-sarah-layden\/1142959361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Imagine-Your-Life-Like-This\/dp\/0299342549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Imagine Your Life Like This<\/em> was named to the Indiana Authors Awards Fiction Shortlist, and honored with an Outstanding Achievement Award in Fiction by the Wisconsin Library Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>&#8220;Reading these stories is a deeply participatory experience. Layden\u2019s storytelling invites us to be witnesses rather than mere observers. Indeed, it\u2019s easy to forget that we are reading and find ourselves living&nbsp;<em>with<\/em>&nbsp;the characters.&#8221;\u2014Kathryn Ludwig,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianaauthorsawards.org\/review\/imagine-your-life-like-this\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indiana Authors Awards Book Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b&#8221;In elegiacally written sashays through doctors\u2019 waiting rooms and seedy bars, (Layden) introduces characters on the cusp of emerging into better lives. Will they take the leap? Will they realise the significance of the thresholds at which we leave them? &#8230;Layden\u2019s soaring themes encompass the full range of what it means to be human.&#8221;\u2014Elizabeth Smith for&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/necessaryfiction.com\/reviews\/imagine-your-life-like-this\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Necessary Fiction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Milwaukee Magazine:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.milwaukeemag.com\/4-books-by-wisconsin-connected-authors-coming-out-this-spring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Four Books by Wisconsin-Connected Authors&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Imagine Your Life Like This<\/em>&nbsp;on IndyStar&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/entertainment\/2023\/06\/07\/summer-reading-list-new-books-by-indiana-authors-to-check-out\/70187643007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Summer Reading List: 8 New Books by Indiana Authors to Bring to Your Book Club<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Imagine Your Life Like This<\/em>&nbsp;(and story &#8220;Nothing and Nobody&#8221;) recommended by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/reunionsmag\/docs\/reunions_v32n2_mag_june23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reunions Magazine<\/a><br>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bPraise for&nbsp;<em>Imagine Your Life Like This<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOpen this book and you\u2019ll want to stay forever in Sarah Layden\u2019s imagined world. Appealing characters with interesting conundrums act right up to the limits of possibility. Layden has an ear for the absurdity in fraught moments that turn out to plumb depths. These stories can bring you to tears even as you laugh out loud.\u201d\u2014Sharon Solwitz, author of&nbsp;<em>Once, in Lourdes<\/em><br><br>\u201cWell-written, varied, and intriguing, these stories are original and will stay with me for a long time.\u201d\u2014Kelly Fordon, author of&nbsp;<em>I Have the Answer<\/em><br><br>\u201cSarah Layden writes about loneliness and disconnection with authority and beauty. Her characters are often flawed people in the midst of difficult circumstances whose stories unravel in surprising ways. She is a writer to watch.\u201d\u2014Marian Crotty, author of&nbsp;<em>What Counts as Love<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe stories in&nbsp;<em>Imagine Your Life Like This<\/em>&nbsp;are unforgettable, with characters deftly portrayed, sometimes with a single memorable line. They have outsize vices, married men, and cookie binging. They lie, they steal, they act on violent impulses, yet I loved them and longed for redemption for each and every one. You want to believe that light boxes might solve their north-country-long-winter problems, but they know deep down that\u2019s not true. I particularly connected with the sardonic, vulnerable women. They hide from the truth for a while, but inevitably truth is as necessary to them as a good meal, a strong drink. Brava, Sarah Layden!\u201d\u2014Patricia Henley, author of&nbsp;<em>Other Heartbreaks<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Hummingbird House<\/em><br><br>\u201cA great collection of short stories can make you feel as though the writer is taking you on a tour of a specific place and time, like a novel, while focusing on the many individual lives that make up the whole.&nbsp;<em>Imagine Your Life Like This&nbsp;<\/em>is one of those books: a wise and deeply satisfying collection that illuminates the courage and humor of ordinary people in a place where a mountain of broken glass in the moonlight can be more beautiful than Christmas lights, and a yearbook photo can illuminate the kindness that saved your life. I loved these stories. I was sorry when one ended but always, and immediately, drawn in by the next.\u201d\u2014Susan Neville, author of&nbsp;<em>The Town of Whispering Dolls<\/em><br><br>\u201cLayden\u2019s vividly-drawn characters struggle to define themselves in relation to who they used to be, who they want to be, and who others imagine them to be. In the midst of their various crises, they behave badly, make mistakes, and want what they can\u2019t have, and yet in spite of\u2014or maybe because of\u2014their fallibility, they remain sympathetic and lovable.&nbsp;<em>Imagine Your Life Like This&nbsp;<\/em>is a crisp, compassionate, and moving examination of the difficulty of seeing ourselves clearly and the pain of being seen by others in ways we can\u2019t control.\u201d\u2014Ashley Wurzbacher, author of&nbsp;<em>Happy Like This<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\" id=\"TIAOLE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"568\" height=\"852\" src=\"https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Invisible-Art.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.jpeg 568w, https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/invisible-art-of-literary-editing-9781350296503\/\"><strong>The Invisible Art of Literary Editing<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Bryan Furuness and Sarah Layden<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloomsbury Academic, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Order from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-invisible-art-of-literary-editing-bryan-furuness\/19439221?ean=9781350296480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bookshop&nbsp;<\/a>|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-invisible-art-of-literary-editing-bryan-furuness\/1142804311?ean=9781350296480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Invisible-Art-Literary-Editing\/dp\/1350296481\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:37px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\" id=\"TSITMAM\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/cover-all-black-page001_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/cover-all-black-page001_1.jpg 360w, https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/cover-all-black-page001_1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The Story I Tell Myself About Myself<\/em><br><\/strong>Winner of the 2017&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesonderpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sonder Press<\/a>&nbsp;Chapbook competition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Order from <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-story-i-tell-myself-about-myself-sarah-layden\/10318562?ean=9780999750124\">Bookshop <\/a>|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-story-i-tell-myself-about-myself-sarah-layden\/1129135867?ean=9780999750124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> |&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0999750127\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The fifteen stories in Layden\u2019s new collection\u2014a follow-up to her powerhouse debut novel,&nbsp;<em>Trip Through Your Wires<\/em>\u2014explore loss, loneliness, and life. The stories run the gamut from magical realism to realism that\u2019s magical, each with Layden\u2019s sharp wit, insightfully drawn characters, and unflinching prose.&#8221;\u2014James Figy for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/splitlipthemag.com\/reviews\/0918\/the-story-i-tell-myself-about-myself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Split Lip Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sarah Layden\u2019s flash fiction collection,&nbsp;<em>The Story I Tell Myself About Myself,<\/em>&nbsp;evokes ghosts of Sherwood Anderson\u2019s well-known &#8216;grotesques&#8217; in&nbsp;<em>Winesburg, Ohio<\/em>. Layden\u2019s characters, too, are flawed and broken, grappling with isolation and desperation, attempting to endure their pain. And like Anderson\u2019s, Layden\u2019s characters are deeply worth the time and effort to understand them.&#8221;\u2014Dheepa R. Maturi for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pankmagazine.com\/2019\/04\/04\/review-story-tell-sarah-layden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PANK Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;The Story I Tell Myself about Myself<\/em>&nbsp;by Sarah Layden is a wonderful assemblage of pure storytelling genius. These fifteen stories are by turns heart-wrenching, funny, and deliciously surprising. Layden is a deft, intelligent writer at the height of her powers. Read this book, then seek out everything else she has written.&#8221;\u2014Kathy Fish, author of&nbsp;<em>Wild Life<br><br>&#8220;The Story I Tell Myself About Myself<\/em>&nbsp;gives you no choice but this: stay. Stay with these characters and listen to what they have to tell you.&#8221;\u2014Frannie McMillan for&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smokelong.com\/book-review-sarah-laydens-the-story-i-tell-myself-about-myself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SmokeLong Quarterly<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This style\/approach reminds me of one of my favorite authors, Aimee Bender, how she just throws her wildly creative and wonderful concepts out in the first sentence, then goes from there\u2014I\u2019ve tried to copy that for the last twenty years or so, to varying degrees of success. Layden is way better at it than me. That\u2019s why I like this book so much, I think, because it reminds me of what I love about writing, what has always inspired me, what inspires me today.&#8221;\u2014Michael Czyzniejewski,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/story366blog.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/31\/the-woman-with-no-skin-by-sarah-layden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Story366<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To believe Layden tapped into a magic is to discredit the hard work she committed to crafting these stories, some dating back a decade. Still, each page crackles with energy you\u2019d expect radiating from a wand, not from short prose.&#8221;\u2014Joshua P. Flynn for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuvo.net\/arts\/sarah-layden-s-magical-flash-fiction\/article_a4531883-106c-5f6e-b0a8-0f467f61cd14.html?utm_source=Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=adf89d2b94-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_27_01_23&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_7598acbe42-adf89d2b94-179327257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NUVO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Slippery, secretive, and sensual, Layden&#8217;s short fiction is simply magical.&#8221;\u2014Dan Grossman &amp; Laura McPhee for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuvo.net\/arts\/summer-reads-new-books-by-indy-authors\/article_5ff70a50-798b-11e8-8149-830546771d79.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NUVO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sarah Layden&#8217;s excellent new chapbook is sleet and ice cracking. It&#8217;s ducks, boots, candles, and comets. It&#8217;s phone calls and packages; ham salad and ovulation. It&#8217;s so many things all pulled together with the strong, confident pen of Sarah Layden. These stories dwell in leaving and loss, displacement and memory. Layden lets the world in, breathes the world out. Join her.&#8221;\u2014Sherrie Flick, author of&nbsp;<em>Thank Your Lucky Stars<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Loss and disappointment permeate Layden&#8217;s stories, often fantastical allegories&#8230;we feel it, too, in the straight-shooting family narratives&#8230;Either way, the dead-on characterization grounds the reader&#8230;There is something familiar in Layden&#8217;s stories, and it stings.&#8221;\u2014Thea Swanson, author of&nbsp;<em>MARS&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>The Curious Solitude of Anise<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:27px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\" id=\"TTYW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/finalcover-web_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/finalcover-web_1.jpg 399w, https:\/\/sarahlayden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/finalcover-web_1-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Trip Through Your Wires<\/em>&nbsp;<br><\/strong>A novel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Engine Books, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Order from <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/trip-through-your-wires-sarah-layden\/16855351?ean=9781938126178\">Bookshop <\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/trip-through-your-wires-sarah-layden\/1118973928?ean=9781938126178\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trip-Through-Wires-Sarah-Layden\/dp\/1938126173?ref_=ast_author_dp\">Amazon <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Praise for <em>Trip Through Your Wires<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In this novel, the murder of Ben in a Mexican city has left his girlfriend Carey Halpern shell-shocked for seven years. When a new clue emerges that draws her back into the mystery of his death, Carey searches through her failing memory to recognize her blindness to the danger Ben courted.&#8221;\u2014<em>The Chicago Tribune<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sarah Layden&#8217;s debut novel&nbsp;<em>Trip Through Your Wires<\/em>&nbsp;is a powerful and haunting examination of memory and loss.&#8221;\u2014David Gutowski,<em>Largehearted Boy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Trip Through Your Wires&nbsp;<\/em>is a welcome antidote to despair. Sarah Layden is the real thing.\u201d\u2014Kyle Minor, author of&nbsp;<em>Praying Drunk<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Traumatized by her experience in Mexico,&nbsp;Carey Halpern&nbsp;is trying to snap out of her&nbsp;Prufrock-like trance.&nbsp;She&#8217;s smart and she&#8217;s&nbsp;funny.&nbsp;Now, if she can just solve her boyfriend&#8217;s murder.&nbsp;Sarah&nbsp;Layden is in complete control of&nbsp;time,&nbsp;language, and narrative in this beautiful story that has everything to do with how we live with our pasts.&#8221;\u2014Margaret McMullan, author of&nbsp;<em>Sources of Light<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Trip Through Your Wires<\/em>&nbsp;is compulsively readable.&#8221;\u2014Porter Shreve, author of&nbsp;<em>The End of the Book<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In this haunting first novel, Sarah Layden constructs a machine of longing, capturing the minute maze of memory.&nbsp;<em>Trip Through Your Wires<\/em>&nbsp;is a patient, powerful, and profound emotional unraveling.&#8221;\u2014Michael Martone, author of&nbsp;<em>Four for a Quarter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Layden intricately traces the maze of human memory, full of twists and dead ends. 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