Human Hours

Winner of the Believer Book Award The triumphant follow-up collection to The Game of Boxes , winner of the James Laughlin Award Catherine Barnett’s tragicomic third collection, Human Hours , shuttles between a Whitmanian embrace of others and a kind of rapacious solitude. Barnett speaks from the middle of hope and confusion, carrying philosophy into the everyday. Watching a son become a young man, a father become a restless beloved shell, and a country betray its democratic ideals, the speakers