May 7, 2021
Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Stefan Kiesbye's new novel No Sound to Break, No Moment Clear (Brighthorse Books, Fall 2021) wins the 2020 Brighthorse Prize.
The unnamed narrator of this novel, a teenager in the 1980s, grows up in Michigan Upper Peninsula, in a town that has been left off the map. Once a small outcropping of stone in the middle of Lake Superior, it now lives its second incarnation away from curious eyes. In an atmosphere of neighborly distrust, jealousy, and neglect, the boy and his older sister Katia chart their own course without guidance or oversight. The dissolution of their family makes them discover the ugly secrets at the foundation of their own lives. - Stefan Kiesbye