Bryan Bliss

May 22, 2024 | bookriot.com | Jas Hammonds |Naomi Kanakia |Samira Ahmed |Bryan Bliss

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May 10, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Bryan Bliss |Laura Nowlin |Daniel O. Aleman

A smart, poignant meditation on losing someone you love and living with the loss. The complicated nature of grief and an unusual path to understanding life through the lens of pro wrestling mania are explored in this novel about a St. Paul, Minnesota, teen whose father died three years ago. Eighteen-year-old Julie and her mom have escaped the emotional fog that overtook them when their beloved dad and husband died unexpectedly, but the gaping hole he left is still a constant in their lives.

Mar 26, 2024 | medium.com | Bryan Bliss

(In no particular order)1. II Kings 2:23−24, in which Elisha is just trying to go up to Bethel when some youths start making fun of his bald head and he’s just not having it so he calls down a curse in the name of the Lord and a couple of bears rumble out of the woods and maul — maul — forty-two of the youths. A bald youth pastor favorite. 2.