# Corpus Christi

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- Book: [Corpus Christi](https://www.bookquiver.com/bret-anthony-johnston/corpus-christi) ([Corpus Christi.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bret-anthony-johnston/corpus-christi.md))
- Authors: [Bret Anthony Johnston](https://www.bookquiver.com/bret-anthony-johnston)
- Publisher: john_murray
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7361-155-9
- Published: 2015-02-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'A gorgeous, accomplished debut' David Mitchell By internationally bestselling author Bret Anthony Johnston, WINNER of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2017. In Corpus Christi, Texas - a town often hit by hurricanes - parents, children, and lovers come together and fall apart, bonded and battered by memories of loss that they feel as acutely as physical pain. A car accident joins strangers linked by an intimate knowledge of madness. A teenage boy remembers his father's act of sudden and self-righteous violence. A 'hurricane party' reunites a couple whom tragedy parted. And, in an unforgettable three-story cycle, an illness heals a man's relationship with his mother and reveals the odd, shifting fidelity of truth to love. Writing with tough humor, deep humanity, and a keen eye for the natural environment, Bret Anthony Johnston creates a world where cataclysmic events cut people loose from their 'regular lives, floating and spiraling away from where we had been the day before.'