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Auguries of Desolation
Paperback
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher Price: $23.99
ISBN13: 9781590929773
Publisher: Little Blue Works
Published: Dec 1 2023
Pages: 478
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thirteen stories written at the precipice of a world about to change.
In Auguries of Desolation, transgender author and activist Sheila Mengert introduces a vivid and diverse cast of characters caught at the precarious intersection of fate and personality-where choices, circumstances, and chance encounters combine to forge unexpected destinies.
Written largely throughout 2019, these stories possess an eerie resonance in hindsight. Again and again, Mengert captures the anxiety beneath ordinary life: the sense of unseen forces gathering, familiar certainties shifting, and something immense waiting just beyond the horizon.
Sharp, compassionate, unsettling, and deeply human, Auguries of Desolation moves through lives shaped by identity, longing, conflict, conviction, and change. Each story offers a different world and a different voice, but all share Mengert's fascination with those moments when the ground beneath us begins to move... and we discover who we are by how we choose to stand.
This collection brings together twelve stories written in 2019, an extensive interview with the author, and a thirteenth story written in 2020.
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