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CSU CENTER FOR LITERARY PUBLISHING Sarah Stark’s Out There, available from Leaf Storm Press, is already being hailed as the Catcher in the Rye of the Iraq/Afghanistan War—did you know that? Besides being compared to a literary giant, the book is about the literary...
WHEN POP CULTURE MEETS WAR: Two new novels make New Mexico the testing ground
After warfare Out There by Sarah Stark (Leaf Storm Press) Novelist Sarah Stark acutely remembers the first Iraq War veteran she met, a student who “was soft-spoken, articulate.” A quiet poet, Ruben Santos would later become a template for the main character in Stark’s...
Publishers Weekly starred review for Out There by Sarah Stark
Out There: A Novel Sarah Stark. Leaf Storm Press, $17.95 paper (238p) ISBN 978-0-9914105-0-7 In this lyrical, evocative novel, Stark summons the possibility of salvation in tragedy. Iraq war veteran Jefferson Long Soldier returns home with a wounded soul and a copy...
A literary pilgrimage: Sarah Stark’s novel “Out There”
By Bill Kohlhaas, Apr 25, 2014, Pasatiempo Magazine of Arts & Culture, Santa Fe New Mexican How would Jefferson Long Soldier, the returning Iraq War veteran and central character of Sarah Stark’s novel Out There (Leaf Storm Press), have taken last week’s news of...
Kirkus Review calls Out There a “poetic debut novel.”
KIRKUS REVIEW A quirky war veteran goes on a pilgrimage to meet his hero, the author Gabriel García Márquez, in this poetic debut novel. Jefferson Long Solider has returned home after two tours in Iraq. The young veteran steps off a plane in Albuquerque, N.M., and...