In Paula Marie Coomer's JAGGED EDGE OF THE SKY, connections of blood and\tcircumstance emerge from a kaleidoscopic narrative in which an array of interconnected characters navigate rugged personal terrains of loss and hope. The resulting literary landscape is spare\tand challenging as the Australian Outback, mythical\tas the American West. This fractured family\tsaga told and at times re-told from sixteen different\tperspectives, transcends continents and time periods in an intricate exploration of\tfamily, relationships, identity\tand all the ways in which inner and outer landscapes merge to create the lives ultimately lived. With a relentless eye, Paula Marie Coomer flinches from neither the gruesome nor the humorous in this fractured tale\tof loners, siblings, parents, and lovers.\t