Book of Gods and Grudges Quitab Editions and the ever-present need for

and the ever-present need for empathy

author of My Life as a Foreign Country

and more—as if the voice of this book has slipped the temporal bounds that tether most voices to a date in history

they take us to the essence of who we are

Book of Gods and Grudges Quitab Editions and the ever-present need forJessica Walsh's Book of Gods and Grudges tells a tale of generational trauma and transcendence. She declares early on that "My first kin were killers," people for whom "burnout was a luxury" they could not afford. Her speaker struggles through illness and sobriety and grappling with God as a problem she tries to solve as she finds her own calling. The poems are unflinchingly honest and impeccably crafted. They show us what it means to stay "flagrantly