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The Sea Beast Takes a Lover: Stories

The Sea Beast Takes a Lover: Stories

Andreasen, Michael

Paperback

FantasyGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1101986638
ISBN13: 9781101986639
Publisher: Dutton
Published: Mar 5 2019
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
This debut author rightfully earns his place on the storytelling totem pole with this wildly original short story collection.--San Francisco Chronicle

Dazzling and delightful, with its feet only slightly tethered to the world we know, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover explores family, faith, and longing through a kaleidoscope of surreal landscapes and spellbinding characters.

Andreasen's stories unfold in wildly inventive worlds that invite the supernatural into our familiar routines: in Bodies in Space, an extramarital affair is rudely interrupted by an alien abduction, while in Blunderbuss, a third-grade class takes an ill-advised field trip to a floundering time travel institute. Jenny follows a reluctant caretaker's attempts to manage his kind-hearted headless sister, and in the title story, a group of sailors find their ship commandeered by an aggressively lovestruck kraken.

Romping through the fantastic with bighearted ease, these stories uncover a universal yearning for connection in seldom-explored spaces, revealing that aliens can help us think about loss, that time travel is just another way to talk about guilt, and that sea monsters may have a thing or two to teach us about love.

With a captivating new voice from an immensely talented storyteller, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover uses the odd, the extraordinary, and the miraculous to expose us at our most profoundly and hilariously human.

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