The Spirit In My Shoes

The Spirit In My Shoes (Cornerstone Press/University of Wisconsin) is a generous and excellent collection of short fiction.

All twenty-three stories in this 50,000-word collection were previously published in great literary journals, including The Kenyon Review, North American Review, and The Iowa Review. "The Scratchboard Project" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and received an Honorable Mention in The Best American Short Stories series.

Jacob M. Appel, author of Einstein's Beach House, says The Spirit In My Shoes is written with "a fierce optimism that captures the abiding promise of the human spirit."
Patty Friedmann, author of Too Jewish and Secondhand, says, "With versatility that takes the reader from a headstone maker to an artist who plays with the meaning of black-and-white, John Michael Cummings defies us to read any story just once."

Sung J. Woo, author of Skin Deep and Everything Asian, says, "A wonderfully thoughtful work by an obvious master of the short form."

John Michael Cummings
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