Beaut. Donald Morrill

      

      Praise for Beaut

      With his debut novel, Donald Morrill shows that prose and poetry can become indistinguishable on the page just as beauty and tragedy are often indistinguishable in our lives. This is a punchy, finely written novel driven by a fierce determination to condense our humanity to the written word.

      —Wiley Cash, author of The Last Ballad and

       A Land More Kind Than Home

      Donald Morrill’s first novel is a compelling meta-narrative of an exposed and broken heart, illusive truth and seductive lies, and how loved ones suffer and benefit from this daily and inevitable symmetry. Jill Lundgrove’s confessions are both elliptical and luminous, and I couldn’t stop reading.

      —Darnell Arnoult, author of Sufficient Grace

      and Galaxie Wagon

      Beaut is as sharp and luminous a novel as I have read this year, a meditation on the terrible beauty and grace of the stories we tell ourselves and the legacies we leave behind.

      —Taylor Brown, author of Gods of Howl Mountain

      and The River of Kings

      Morrill’s debut novel is tenderness wrapped in mystery. Beaut riddles our deepest beliefs about maturity and loyalty, its drive as real as love itself.

      —Edie Meidav, author of

      Kingdom of the Young and Lola, California

      BEAUT

      — A NOVEL —

      Donald Morrill

      BLAIR

      Copyright © 2018 by Donald Morrill

      All rights reserved

      Printed in the United States of America

      Design by April Leidig

      Typeset in Arno by Copperline Book Services, Inc.

      Blair is an imprint of Carolina Wren Press.

       The mission of Carolina Wren Press is to seek out, nurture,and promote literary work by new and underrepresented writers,including women and writers of color.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Morrill, Donald, 1955– author.

      Title: Beaut : a novel / Donald Morrill.

      Description: Durham, NC : Carolina Wren Press, [2017]

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017048738 (print) | LCCN 2017055907 (ebook) |

      ISBN 9780932112750 (ebook) | ISBN 9780932112743

      (softcover : acid-free paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Dysfunctional families—Fiction. | Single mothers—

      Fiction. | Widows—Fiction. | Domestic fiction.

      Classification: LCC PS3563.O8737 (ebook) |

      LCC PS3563.O8737 B43 2017 (print) | DDC 813/.54—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017048738