Instead, these stories take their time they seem to bloom on the page like a tea flower unfolding in hot water they breathily float around ideas and emotions in hauntingly beautiful language. To say the prose here is poetic is perhaps not going far enough - some of these stories actually seem to BE poetry, not in the conventional flash-fiction compression sense, all dense prose and concrete imagery and carved-out moments. It’s beautiful and heartbreaking in ways I haven’t seen much of before, and truly original fiction is always a pleasure. That curiosity and care with which Krughoff approaches her characters are deeply felt in her writing, making this an unforgettable collection." ~ Emily Webber, jmww " Wake in the Night is flooded with life, and one gets the sense that Krughoff is a careful study of character and what forms a person’s identity.
Reading Krughoff is like having the nicest person in the world tell you there’s no Tooth Fairy, but that, even if there were, said creature wouldn’t act at all the way you’d think it would.” ~ Andrew Farkas, author of Sunsphere and Self-Titled Debut “In these beautifully written and disarmingly humane stories, Laura Krughoff points out the problems with our preconceived notions, and then imagines what new notions we might generate in their place so she can undermine those, too. “Laura Kroghoff’s stories have the lyrical exuberance of a Grace Paley in their bones.” ~ Christopher Grimes, author of The Pornographers and Public Works: Short Fiction and a Novella In Wake in the Night, we are reminded why we must push beyond easy categories and find new ways of understanding the roles we play.” ~ Paula Carter, author of No Relation
By employing forms that break with convention in the same spirited ways her characters do, Laura Krughoff creates a world of stunning detail that examines just what people will do when expectations stifle truth. “Spanning the last century with narrators aged 10 to 100, these stories reveal women struggling to fit a definition of womanhood that cannot contain them. In the small towns of the Midwest, girls and women dream of finding voice and forcing the world to listen. Marriages occur in the 1930s for lack of other opportunities a young girl dances to Thriller for her friend’s older brother a pastor remembers her childhood spent fantasizing that she is the prophet John the Baptist. Six stories span a century of rural American women.
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