{"id":11206,"date":"2018-01-29T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=11206"},"modified":"2018-01-28T22:42:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T03:42:10","slug":"review-warblers-amber-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-warblers-amber-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Warblers by Amber Fallon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11207\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-warblers-amber-fallon\/warblers\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/warblers.jpg?fit=357%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"357,499\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"warblers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/warblers.jpg?fit=357%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11207\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/warblers.jpg?resize=250%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/warblers.jpg?resize=250%2C350&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/warblers.jpg?w=357&amp;ssl=1 357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Warblers-Amber-Fallon\/dp\/1621052400\/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1515985090&amp;sr=1-1-fkmr0&amp;keywords=the+warblers+amber+tamblyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Warblers\u00a0<\/em>by Amber Fallon<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Eraserhead Press (September 2017)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>86 pages; $10.95 paperback; $5.95 e-book<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChadLutzke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chad Lutzke<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I stood on our rickety old porch, looking out towards the peeling paint on the back shed as the sunset drained like a stuck pig, bleeding out red all over.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this first-person, coming-of-age novella, a warbler is a winged creature that isn\u2019t welcome. And after young Dell and his family try to ignore the pack of them, it turns out they\u2019re rather dangerous, too\u2013-\u2013even tearing apart poor Dell\u2019s dog. So Dell and his father set out to rid their back shed of the beasts, but the means to which they do so could prove even worse a predicament than what they\u2019re already up against. Not just for their family, but maybe for the whole town.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think it was the Joe Lansdale blurb I saw that reeled me in. I figured if Joe liked it, I\u2019d like it too. And I was right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Warblers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is simple storytelling, and while the ending doesn\u2019t necessarily kick it up a notch, you get the reward along the way in the telling itself, where you get to listen to Dell and what he thinks about his father and his mother and sister and about the local bully, all the while preparing for and anticipating the day he and his father take down the evil pests lurking around the shed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One thing that stuck out was how long the book was with what little there was to tell, yet it didn\u2019t feel padded. Any padding that was there felt comfortable, not like filler. And most impressive was the old-timey southern dialect that Fallon pulled off and just how authentic it felt, like it was just her thing and always had been. Something all too natural to ever have us think otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Warblers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a quick read with well-paced chapters\u2013-\u2013a tale to be told around a campfire while the horses sleep standing and the men rest their bones under the influence of whiskey, a long day\u2019s work and starshine. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Warblers\u00a0by Amber Fallon Eraserhead Press (September 2017) 86 pages; $10.95 paperback; $5.95 e-book Reviewed by\u00a0Chad Lutzke I stood on our rickety old porch, looking out towards the peeling paint on the back shed as the sunset drained like a stuck pig, bleeding out red all over. In this first-person, coming-of-age novella, a warbler is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-warblers-amber-fallon\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: The Warblers by Amber 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