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False Bingo: Stories
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ISBN10: 0374538352
ISBN13: 9780374538354
Publisher: MCD X Fsg Originals
Published: Oct 8 2019
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780374538354
Publisher: MCD X Fsg Originals
Published: Oct 8 2019
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
Combines the otherworldliness of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, the menacing irony of Shirley Jackson and the cold feminist fury of Margaret Atwood --The New York Times Book Review
Named a Fall Read by The Boston Globe and the Chicago Tribune
The mundane becomes sinister in a disquieting story collection from the author of The Grip of It
In Jac Jemc's dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces--some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and some not--work their ways into the mundanity of everyday life. In Strange Loop, an outcast attempting to escape an unnamed mistake spends his days taxiderming animals, while in Delivery, a family watches as their dementia-addled, basement-dwelling father succumbs to an online shopping addiction. Don't Let's finds a woman, recently freed from an abusive relationship, living in an isolated vacation home in the South that might be haunted by breath-stealing ghosts. Fueled by paranoia and visceral suspense, and crafted with masterful restraint, these seventeen stories explore what happens when our fears cross over into the real, if only for a fleeting moment. Identities are stolen, alternate universes are revealed, and innocence is lost as the consequences of minor, seemingly harmless decisions erupt to sabotage a false sense of stability. This is not a morality tale about the goodness of one character triumphing over the bad of another, the sadistic narrator of Pastoral announces. Rather, False Bingo is a collection of realist fables exploring how conflicting moralities can coexist: the good, the bad, the indecipherable.
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