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Fruiting Bodies: Stories
Paperback
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.99
ISBN13: 9781324089018
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Oct 15 2024
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows characters--mostly queer, mostly women--on the precipice of change. Echoes of timeless myth and folklore reverberate through urgent narratives of discovery, appetite, and coming-of-age in a time of crisis.
In The Changeling, two young cousins wait in dread for a new family member to arrive, convinced that he may be a dangerous supernatural creature. In Endangered Animals, Jane prepares to say goodbye to her almost-love while they road-trip across a country irrevocably altered by climate change. In Take Only What Belongs to You, a queer woman struggles with the personal history of an author she idolized, while in Fiddler, Fool, Pair, an anthropologist is drawn into a magical--and dangerous--gamble. In the title story, partners Agnes and Geb feast peacefully on the mushrooms that sprout from Agnes's body--until an unwanted male guest disturbs their cloistered home.
Audacious, striking, and wholly original, Fruiting Bodies offers stories about knowledge in a world on the verge of collapse, knowledge that alternately empowers or devastates. Pulling beautifully, brazenly, from a variety of literary traditions, Kathryn Harlan firmly establishes herself as a thrilling new voice in fiction.
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