{"id":97,"date":"2021-12-05T14:35:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T19:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:23:25","slug":"day-of-all-saints","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/novellas\/day-of-all-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of all Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">PATRICIA GRACE KING<br><br>2017 NOVELLA PRIZE SELECTED BY BRIAN ROLEY<br>2017. ISBN 978-1-881163-62-6<br>$15.00 <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/day-of-all-saints\/9781881163626\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Day-Saints-Patricia-Grace-King\/dp\/1881163628\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pathwaybookservice.com\/products\/day-of-all-saints-1\">Pathway<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Mart\u00edn Silva de Choc, childhood&nbsp;survivor of an army massacre during the Guatemalan civil war,&nbsp;and now a language school teacher in Guatemala City, falls in love with his American student, Abby, and follows her home to Chicago on a fianc\u00e9 visa.&nbsp;Days before their wedding, however,&nbsp;Abby goes missing, and on a Halloween afternoon Mart\u00edn embarks on a search that leads from the ghost strewn yards of Chicago\u2019s North Side to the Lincoln Park Conservatory and ultimately back to his violent past. A story&nbsp;about repressed secrets and the limits of love,&nbsp;<em>Day of All Saint&nbsp;<\/em>traces the effects of historical trauma on individual lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">Reviews &amp; Such<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;King\u2019s novella is tightly and brightly written. The third-person and present tense narrative mirrors the vivid yet choked imagination of the main character as he tries to make sense of his world through the heavy lens of buried trauma.&#8221; \u2013 MariJean Wegert in <a href=\"https:\/\/wolfsonpress.mybigcommerce.com\/review-issue-1\/\"><em>Wolfson Review<\/em>, Fall 2023<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;King writes a story within a story within a story, and she does so in lyrical language with details so vivid that the reader cannot help but enter the picture she paints.&#8221;<em>&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/floridareview.cah.ucf.edu\/article\/ghosts-in-the-trees\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Florida Review<\/a><\/em>, February 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Finalist for the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/crw\/category\/balcones_fiction_prize\/\">2017 Balcones Fiction Prize<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/heavyfeatherreview.org\/2018\/01\/12\/king\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reviewed in<\/a><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/heavyfeatherreview.org\/2018\/01\/12\/king\/\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;Heavy Feather Review<\/a>,<\/em>&nbsp;January 2018:&nbsp;&#8220;King\u2019s brevity reaches to encompass the edges of love, war, and impermanence in one graceful, striking sweep. Though one might be skeptical of the ability to address such weighted themes in so few pages, King proves that minimalism amplifies trauma, and even honors it in ways that expounding cannot.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Durham University&#8217;s Department of English Studies&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/readdurhamenglish.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/01\/day-of-all-saints-an-interview-with-patricia-grace-king\/\">interviewed<\/a>&nbsp;Patricia Grace King about the novella<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Friends of Writers blog published<a href=\"http:\/\/friendsofwriters.org\/2017\/11\/12\/an-excerpt-from-day-of-all-saints-by-patricia-grace-king\/\">&nbsp;an excerpt from&nbsp;<em>Day of All Saints<\/em><\/a>, Nov 12, 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Patricia Grace King\u2019s debut novella&nbsp;<em>Day of All Saint<\/em>s succeeds not only in brevity of form but is also so well written, so compassionate in portraying survival in such violent times that it is hard to put down.&nbsp;So much can be said about the Guatemalan civil war&nbsp;and how it impacted both the public and private spheres, and King reminds us anew with such lyricism, that the reader can withstand the brutality. She brings the story much closer to home, Chicago, much closer to love, and the main protagonist Mart\u00edn must overcome the trauma and guilt of survival.&nbsp;Love may not be successful for him, but at least it\u2019s a beginning and King is asking us: if we can\u2019t call that beginning a small act of redemption, then what is?&nbsp;<br>\u2014<strong>Helena Mar\u00eda Viramontes<\/strong>, author of&nbsp;<em>Their Dogs Came with Them<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Under the Feet of Jesus<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A haunted hero. His missing bride. Ghosts everywhere. In this elegantly-structured, suspenseful, and affecting novella, Patricia Grace King displays her great gifts as a writer: sharp prose, vivid setting across two cultures, and a profound empathy for the dispossessed, the forgotten, and the dreamers.<br>\u2014<strong>Christopher Castellani<\/strong>, author of&nbsp;<em>All This Talk of Love<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Day of All Saints<\/em>&nbsp;is a gripping and beautifully written tale of war and its aftermath. In this<br>searing story, Patricia Grace King examines not only the human toll of Guatemala\u2019s civil war, but also the costs of facing\u2014and of failing to face\u2014the ghosts that haunt us.<br>\u2014<strong>Judith Claire Mitchell<\/strong>, author of&nbsp;<em>A Reunion of Ghosts<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The Last Day of the War<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In&nbsp;<em>Day of All Saints<\/em>&nbsp;Patricia&nbsp;Grace King has crafted a heartbreaking, sensual tale, steeped in the rich details and characters of Guatemala, a part of the world rarely visited in North American writing.\u2014<strong>Patricia Henley, <\/strong>author of&nbsp;<em>Other Heartbreaks: stories<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Hummingbird House<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">About the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patricia Grace King grew up in North Carolina and has since lived in Atlanta, Chicago, and Virginia\u2019s Shenandoah Valley, as well as in Spain, Guatemala, and the UK. She is the author of two chapbooks,&nbsp;<em>Rubia<\/em>&nbsp;(The Florida Review) and&nbsp;<em>The Death of Carrie Bradshaw<\/em>&nbsp;(Kore Press); her short stories have been published by Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Narrative Magazine, and Nimrod. She was the 2013-2014 Carol Houck Smith Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and now lives in Durham, England, where she is finishing a novel as well as a story collection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"873\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/king_day_of_all_saints.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82\" style=\"width:450px;height:655px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/king_day_of_all_saints.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/king_day_of_all_saints-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"834\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/King.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98\" style=\"width:450px;height:626px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/King.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/King-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PATRICIA GRACE KING 2017 NOVELLA PRIZE SELECTED BY BRIAN ROLEY2017. 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