It's official! A Great Fullness will be released by Fomite Press on January 15, 2016. Presales coming soon. For reviewers and booksellers, click here for the spec sheet from Fomite Press.
A Great Fullness is the story of an orphan who lives with a secret even she
doesn’t know she possesses – the truth about her mother’s violent death at her father's hands. Growing up
amid the endless turnover of guests at her aunt and uncle’s bed and breakfast
inn, Kim Pugh tries to find her place in a world where everyone is a stranger
and many have secrets of their own. Set in small-town Kansas as the new
millennium ushers in a decade of tragedy and war, A Great Fullness traces
the fate of one family whose struggle for survival and redemption echoes the
turbulence of a troubled world.
Praise for A Great
Fullness
“As in a Greek
tragedy, a horrific death occurs off-stage in Bob Sommer’s second novel, A
Great Fullness, and colors every moment of this suspenseful story about a
surviving child."
—Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate,
2007-2009, author of Ghost Stories of the New West
“Bob Sommer writes
eloquently about ordinary Midwestern Americans confronted with the
extraordinarily disruptive pressures of the twenty-first century.…”
—William Merrill Decker, author of Kodak
Elegy: A Cold War Childhood
“With cinematic
clarity and pace, A Great Fullness takes us inside a family caught in turmoil,
as the drama of their lives reflects our troubled society and its broken capacity
for joy.”
—David Ray, award-winning poet, author of
Sam’s Book
“While rooted in
the landscape of eastern Kansas in the late twentieth century, the story opens
itself to all of us, tracing with care and insight the struggle to overcome
loss and to forge new bonds of love and trust in the face of all the challenges
that life presents.”
—Kimball Smith, author of Missing Persons
and Nothing Disappears
"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." —Henry David Thoreau
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
'Bread Crumbs and Hatchet Marks': a new essay included in O-Dark-Thirty
Posted by
Robert F Sommer
My new essay, entitled "Bread Crumbs and Hatchet Marks," appears in the current issue of O-Dark-Thirty, the literary journal of the Veterans Writing Project--released just as Veterans Day is upon us. This essay explores the subtle ways my late son Francis found to express his pain and guilt following his deployments to Iraq and Afganistan. Click the image to read "Bread Crumbs and Hatchet Marks," as well as the many other fine contributions to this issue.
To learn more about Francis, please visit www.francisfund.org.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
A Great Fullness -- proof copy in hand!
Posted by
Robert F Sommer
The
proof copy for A Great Fullness arrived today! I have another round of
minor corrections to do, and the book will soon be ready for release
from Fomite Press.
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