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Antipodes: Stories
Goddard Jones, Holly
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ISBN10: 1609388291
ISBN13: 9781609388294
Publisher: Univ Of Iowa Pr
Published: May 10 2022
Pages: 224
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781609388294
Publisher: Univ Of Iowa Pr
Published: May 10 2022
Pages: 224
Language: English
A harried and depressed mother of three young children serves on a committee that watches over the bottomless sinkhole that has appeared in her Kentucky town. During COVID lockdown, a thirty-four-year-old gamer moves back home with his parents and is revisited by his long-forgotten childhood imaginary friend. A politician running for a state congressional seat and a young mother, who share the same set of fears about the future, cross paths but don't fully understand one another. A woman attends a party at the home of a fellow church parishioner and discovers she is on the receiving end of a sales pitch for a doomsday prepper. These stories and more contemplate our current reality with both frankness and hard-earned hopefulness, realism and fabulism, tackling parenthood, environment, and the absurd-but-unavoidable daily toil of worrying about mundane matters when we've entered an era of unknowability, of persistent strangeness.