Momentary Illumination of Objects in Motion

The car is idling on the road between where we've been and where we're going. The door's open. You coming? Momentary Illumination of Objects In Motion tells of life and death, identity and race, change and resistance to change. Arias unflinchingly peers into the places we turn away from, showing us it's not always as neat or as clean as we'd like to imagine. Sometimes it's messy as hell. "A kickass debut." Margaret Malone, People Like You "A debut that pulls no punches." Samuel Snoek-Brown, There Is No Other Way to Worship Them ..".an after-midnight bar story, a foxhole prayer, a graveyard shift confession." Matthew Robinson, The Horse Latitudes "It's a book that makes you feel whispered to and pulled in close." Rita Bullwinkel, Belly Up "Arias finds flashes of humor in the wreckage, as well as rare moments of beauty." Stevan Allred, The Alehouse at the End of the World

Review :
"Arias will break your heart, blow your mind, make you laugh and bring you to the edge of everything that matters. Momentary Illumination of Objects In Motion is a phenomenal and dazzling debut that gives voice to people who live on the edges and in-between worlds. I will carry this book near my body like a firewall against the wrong world, like a fierce love song that will not be silenced." Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children "Inspired, challenging, heartbreaking, and uplifting--the stories of Momentary Illumination of Objects In Motion are an after-midnight bar story, a foxhole prayer, a graveyard shift confession. Arias confronts masculinity and identity and memory and authority--as urgently needed as anything in fiction today." Matthew Robinson, author of The Horse Latitudes "Arias made me feel that I was being read aloud to at a bar, as if someone was leaning in close, three rounds deep, and confessing to me their visions of limping mermaids, and half-Dominican, half-Harlem, half-something-else fathers, and girls counting the bullets put in their father backwards. It's a book that makes you feel whispered to and pulled in close. It's a book that makes you wince your eyes and re-see things you thought you knew." Rita Bullwinkel, author of Belly Up "Momentary Illumination of Objects In Motion sends us hurtling into the joys and terrors of growing up and becoming a man. In several stories, Arias looks at life through the unflappably calm eyes of an EMT assessing the carnage at a fatal accident. Alert to both the fragility of humans and their resilience, Arias finds flashes of humor in the wreckage, as well as rare moments of beauty when humans transcend their limitations to become their best selves." Stevan Allred, author of The Alehouse at the End of the World and A Simplified Map of the Real World "Arias illuminates the rough beauty of ordinary life with brevity and concision. At once, both funny and stark, the stories in Momentary Illumination of Objects In Motion are ferociously honest about the hard truths of our existence, and yet still burn with love and appreciation for all the parts of our humanity. A kickass debut." Margaret Malone, author of People Like You "Arias writes with a directness and an open-wound honesty that lends his stories a profound authenticity. No floral verbosity here; Ariashe gets right down to the meat and bone of his stories. Yet--or perhaps because of that style--he also homes in on powerful imagery, revelatory metaphor, and vibrant characters who are fascinating to watch evolve from one story to the next. Momentary Illumination of Objects In Motion is a debut that pulls no punches, and Arias is a writer to watch." Samuel Snoek-Brown, author of There Is No Other Way to Worship Them