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Leaps of Faith: A Collection of Short Stories Kindle Edition

by A.M. Leibowitz (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
From Christmas to Easter and from childhood through the end of life, here are ten interconnected stories revolving around one couple and the people who love them. These are tales of friendship, family, sensuality, and all the intimate moments that make them who they are, together and apart. The stories, while standalone, also fill in the gaps before and around the events in the novels in the Passing on Fatih series. Included: a youth embraces his identity; two women build a life together; a former rebellious teen finds her way; a pair of lovers explore each other's minds and bodies; a man copes with loss and grief.
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  1. Print length
    387 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    July 12, 2017
  4. File size
    808 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B073MLZYFZ
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 12, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 808 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 387 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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A. M. Leibowitz

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A.M. Leibowitz is a queer spouse, parent, feminist, and book-lover falling somewhere on the Geek-Nerd Spectrum. They keep warm through the long, cold western New York winters by writing about life, relationships, hope, and happy-for-now endings. Their published fiction includes several novels as well as a number of short works, and their stories have been included in anthologies from Supposed Crimes, Beaten Track, Witty Bard, and Mischief Corner Books. They are an occasional host for the Bi+(plus) podcast as well as doing bi+ advocacy work and curating the best-of bi list on the QueerBooksForTeens website. They are a social media contributor for Supposed Crimes, LLC, and they post about news, reviews, and updates for the website. In between, they blog coffee-fueled, quirky commentary on faith, culture, books, chronic illness, and their family.

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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Loved revisiting the characters
    Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2017
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    The short stories in this book being back the characters from the author's other books. And I was happy to see all of them that she brought back. She creates such realistic characters and real life stories. No matter how one feels about LGBTQ people, many of us do a disservice to them by fetishizing them and their relationships. They go through the same things any straight couple deals with. I love how the author brings them all together towards the end of the book, an devoted several chapters to their perspective of how that came about. So many emotions are experienced in these short stories, which happened in her books as you grow attached to watch character. It also wraps up the question of "what happened to so and so?" which I had about most of the characters after reading two of her books. I would highly recommend reading her previously books to get the full picture of each character.
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Not my usual genre, but with important things to say
    Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2019
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    I'll be upfront from the start - this wouldn't normally be my kind of book as it sits outside the genres I usually read. I read it as a book club pick, and one of the nice things about book clubs is that it brings books to you that you might not normally encounter, broadening your horizons.

    It's a series of short stories - but all interconnected, telling the story of a young couple and those around them as characters explore their gender identities, their sexuality, what makes them love, what makes them hurt.

    There are sex scenes, and other elements that probably make this a book that fits at the top end of Young Adult and more squarely in New Adult but there's a great value in the stories within.

    Let me explain by taking a trip back in my own time - back in the 1970s, author Joan Lingard published a series of novels that these days would be classed as young adult. They told the tale of Kevin and Sadie, two young people on opposite sides of the religious divide in Northern Ireland at a time when that kind of difference could get you killed.

    As a young Northern Irishman myself, they struck a chord on who I was, on the journey others like me were going through - and that's what is most striking about this collection. For those questioning who they are, who they identify as, who they are attracted to, there are representations here of others on that same journey. Just as I could pick up those Kevin and Sadie books and see myself in them, so too many readers either exploring their identity or sure as heck of who they are but not of how to express it to a world might read Leaps of Faith and say "This is me". For those who don't see themselves in the world around them as much as they might, that's no small thing.
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  • Marianne G Petrino
    5.0 out of 5 stars We are Everyone
    Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2017
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    Everyday life stories transformed into something extraordinary by characters who are not often given voice or respect in literature.
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  • Debbie McGowan
    5.0 out of 5 stars LGBT fiction at its best
    Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2017
    Leaps of Faith potentially works as a stand-alone collection of short stories, but I'd recommend reading Passing on Faith and Walking by Faith first.

    Note: there will be spoilers if you read this collection first.

    Whilst the title gives a clear indication that religious belief factors significantly, there's absolutely no evangelising. I'm an atheist, and I approach books with religious elements with a great deal of caution, but in these stories, there's balance between the main characters' different experiences with religion, and at times, it's heavy - emotionally as opposed to theologically.

    And it's really, really good.

    I love character-driven fiction, which is also why I love book series. Whilst a skilled author can realistically depict characters within a single volume, portraying them in such depth that I leave the book knowing them as well (if not better) than I know people in the physical world, it's a snapshot relating to a specific time period or event in those characters' lives. Yes, it may well be perfect as it is, but sometimes (when the author gets it right) I want more.

    If reading a single book is like people you meet on holiday - where you might spend an intensive week or two in their company before a teary but welcome farewell - then a series is more like your neighbours: people you see every day over a prolonged period. You get to witness their ups and downs, and perhaps, if you're friends too, join in their celebrations and mourn their losses.

    Without giving anything away, Leaps of Faith offers glimpses into the extended lives of Cat and Micah, the beautifully complex couple at the heart of this series. The stories tackle some really hard stuff (the author includes a note at the beginning with an indication of content some might find difficult to read), but this is done with sensitivity and integrity. There's humour - even in the bleak moments - and there's sexy times too. But there's no artificial 'shock and awe' factor, no unnecessary titillation - just life, in all its pain and glory.
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  • Debbie McGowan
    5.0 out of 5 stars LGBT fiction at its best
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2017
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    Leaps of Faith potentially works as a stand-alone collection of short stories, but I'd recommend reading Passing on Faith and Walking by Faith first.

    Note: there will be spoilers if you read this collection first.

    Whilst the title gives a clear indication that religious belief factors significantly, there's absolutely no evangelising. I'm an atheist, and I approach books with religious elements with a great deal of caution, but in these stories, there's balance between the main characters' different experiences with religion, and at times, it's heavy - emotionally as opposed to theologically.

    And it's really, really good.

    I love character-driven fiction, which is also why I love book series. Whilst a skilled author can realistically depict characters within a single volume, portraying them in such depth that I leave the book knowing them as well (if not better) than I know people in the physical world, it's a snapshot relating to a specific time period or event in those characters' lives. Yes, it may well be perfect as it is, but sometimes (when the author gets it right) I want more.

    If reading a single book is like people you meet on holiday - where you might spend an intensive week or two in their company before a teary but welcome farewell - then a series is more like your neighbours: people you see every day over a prolonged period. You get to witness their ups and downs, and perhaps, if you're friends too, join in their celebrations and mourn their losses.

    Without giving anything away, Leaps of Faith offers glimpses into the extended lives of Cat and Micah, the beautifully complex couple at the heart of this series. The stories tackle some really hard stuff (the author includes a note at the beginning with an indication of content some might find difficult to read), but this is done with sensitivity and integrity. There's humour - even in the bleak moments - and there's sexy times too. But there's no artificial 'shock and awe' factor, no unnecessary titillation - just life, in all its pain and glory.
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