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In each story idealized marriages are tested, drained of false romanticism and yet, as Krohn's narrator notes, What love we shared had suffered blows, and yet, bent and wounded, it grew upward, fiercer than before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eA Flower in the Heart of the Painting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Krohn's \u003ci\u003eA Flower in the Heart of the Painting\u003c\/i\u003e is a strongly cohesive, quietly intense collection of stories, graceful in every sense of the word. Her characters face a variety of situations, wrestling with some of the most challenging mysteries of romance and fulfilled love, family and faith, childhood and maturity. Yet uniting the stories is a firm focus on art-not as mere escape or ornament but as a life-changing, spirit-filled, identifying endeavor. Krohn writes beautifully, with delicately evocative language throughout, not to mention penetrating observation and psychological depth. A very fine debut.\u003cb\u003e-Professor David Graham\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAfter Confession\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStutter Monk\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGreatest Hits\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Krohn's stories are carefully drawn portraits-life studies if you will-of ordinary men and women who inhabit the rural landscapes of Wisconsin. These are inward-turning stories, 'Where the Meanings, are-' as Emily Dickinson says. Krohn renders her subjects and themes with delicate brush strokes, with the control and precision of a water colorist. These stories are acts of faith and hope. As one of her narrators says, 'Isn't art the act of creation, after all? As God speaks the world into existence, so the artist extracts her own world from an empty place.' She easily could be speaking of Amy Krohn's fiction.\u003cb\u003e-Thom Tammaro\u003c\/b\u003e, editor, \u003ci\u003eInheriting the Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImagining Home: Writing from the Midwest.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50096763207953,"sku":"CIN0615829503VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51172404003089,"sku":"NIN9780615829500","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51334771376401,"sku":"CIN0615829503G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0615829503.jpg?v=1750847408"},{"product_id":"my-friend-angry-book-amy-krohn-9781643438610","title":"My Friend Angry","description":"\u003cp\u003eVanessa is SOOOOOOO ANGRY she feels her anger will burst out of her \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then--POP--sour, sassy, stormy Angry is sitting right there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVanessa does not want Angry, but the more Vanessa resists, the angrier Angry gets . . . until Vanessa makes a new choice \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by a certified emotional consciousness coach, this emotions book breaks down (and befriends ) big feelings for kids and the adults who raise them. 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