Critical Praise

“The distilled experiences in Tailspin and Other Stories, the intensity of feeling, bring to mind an expression in Japanese: uta-kata. Literally, it means wave foam or floating bubbles, and in the literary sense, poem fragment or the awareness of the impermanence of things. Spanning fiction, nonfiction, and autobiography, these stories remind us that the number of connections we cannot see in the world around us would be frightening, except we are always less alone than we think we are.”
Gary Mawyer, author of Dark Trails

Tailspin (and other stories)
By Pat Matsueda

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Paperback: $15.00
Forthcoming: El León/Manoa Books
July 20, 2025
Fiction