What Explore Booksellers suggests for your March reading list

Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from book stores across Colorado. This week, the staff from Explore Booksellers in Aspen recommends “Shimmer,” “The Red-Headed Pilgrim” and “Bear.”

Shimmer

By Alex Pugsley
Biblioasis
$16.95
May 2022
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From the publisher:  In 10 vividly told stories, “Shimmer” follows characters through relationships, within social norms, and across boundaries of all kinds as they shimmer into and out of each other’s lives.

From Jason Jefferies, General Manager: Alex Pugsley is one of our greatest living writers. He is like a Canadian James Joyce, only if James Joyce grew up hanging out in the parking lots of rundown 7-Elevens and pow-wowing on the…