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Part elegy, part background, part existential ghost story, The Stove-Junker is a harrowing, lyrical yoga on reduction, heartbreak, and the energy of memory. In such a extraordinary debut book, S.K. Kalsi has constructed a haunting story of unvarnished self-examination, as experienced through the story's central personality, Somerset Garden, the stove-junker. In the wintertime of 2012, 79-year-old Somerset moves back again to his ancestral home in idyllic Drums, Pa, to refurbish his dilapidated house. Burdened by the increased loss of his beloved wife, the long-ago disappearance of his rebellious kid, and angry at God and at himself, Somerset expects to reach one final understanding of the meaning of his life. While a blizzard barrels down from the north, Somerset discovers an unnamed youngster squatting on the property, a bizarre child who causes him to confront his history. As he unearths things inside your home that had been lost or discarded in the rubble, Somerset remembers his father's cruelty and the automobile accident that cost him his brother's life; he revisits the itinerant wandering of his children, tethered to a stressed mother; he mourns the increased loss of his wife and ponders the decades-long absence of his kid - most of whom are captured in the grip of Luzerne County's early history of assault.
