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Mom Camp
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781998336319
Publisher: Assembly Press
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
A debut collection of interconnected fiction that delivers a frothy, philosophical take on modern female archetypes.
In elementary school math, she was given a worksheet with six connected squares in the shape of a T, so she drew one girl in each box. When Jeanne was told to cut around the shape, and fold and tape the squares into one cube, she couldn't decide whether to keep the girls outside, looking away from each other, or trapped inside, looking in. Her solution was to rip it up and eat the pieces. The six characters have lived inside her ever since.
An unnamed woman retreats to sort herself into the various roles she has played (Sister, Friend, Server, Lover); another woman, Jeanne, checks into a hotel-turned-escape room empty-handed. These parallel narratives lead a parade of interconnected stories and a novella featuring women of all ages who feel divided between their various roles and their past and present selves. With warmth and humour, the stories in Mom Camp reposition selfhood as rooted in relationship and explore the phenomenology of consciousness--and what it means to be the narrator of your own life.
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