We Are All But Fumbling Creatures

About this book

A collection of short stories and artwork. From the publisher: > A roaming journey through Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley across time. > > From an unlikely band of runaways fleeing slavery, to a fractured family searching for answers amid a climate-ravaged future, Chad B. Anderson’s debut collection entwines short stories with mixed media artworks by Jeffrey D. Guinn. Inspired by the Southern Gothic tradition, *We Are All But Fumbling Creatures* explores the tangled impacts of history, geography, trauma, and the natural world on who we become and what we pass down. > > Guinn’s assemblages – created from wood scraps, dirt, animal bones, and other detritus gathered throughout the Shenandoah Valley – contain their own stories that complement and converse with Anderson’s motifs of haunting echoes, half-buried truths, and the ghosts we carry even if we do not name them.