Teaching Notes for The Storm That Bears Your Name:
Use in the classroom to discuss: the detritus of storms; organic growth and decay; grief narratives; creeping horror; place studies; poetic/economical language; writing about writing; (sur)realism; fatherhood; parenthood; partnership; vivid world viewed through a very strange lens; unexpected plot elements; bizarre children; hauntings; histories, real and imagined; leaves and leavings.
 
Pairs well with 26 Abductions, The Movie My Murderer Makes, Becoming Monster.

The Storm That Bears Your Name by Matthew Mahaney

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Winner of the Cupboard’s 2015 Contest
35 pages. Perfect-bound.

It remembers. Or, it is remembered. Secrets thicken in Matthew Mahaney’s The Storm That Bears Your Name, providing spaces through which children slip, spaces in which the once-said or never-said still shiver. Will you know yourself in the new town? Will the branches bear your weight? Winner of the Cupboard Pamphlet’s Fourth-Ever Contest, The Storm That Bears Your Name cracks open the distance between what is, what was, and what will be as if to say, Maybe.
Of the book, Judge Alissa Nutting says, “The surreal contexts of these narratives read like missives from alternate futures, and the surety of their emotional tenor makes the wildly improbable read like our realistic fate. I was dazzled by the ways these stories could unexpectedly pivot on a sentence and open into an entirely new angle of possibility. Every paragraph ended somewhere wildly different than its start, and revealed fresh views along the way that I’d never have guessed to predict. Throughout, I always felt like I was learning something—about the characters, yes, but these upside-down scenarios also act as the perfect lens to spin out a clear, focused picture of human nature.”

The Storm That Bears Your Name by Matthew Mahaney

Volume Twenty-Two

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