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ISBN: 9781552454367
Categories:
- Decade → 2020-
- Literary Theory → Post-Humanist → A.I.
- Subject → Coming-of-Age
- Subject → Death & Dying
- Literary Theory → Post-Modernism → Deconstruction
- Author Identity → Emerging Authors
- Author Identity → BIPOC Authors → Indigenous Authors
- Writing Style → Literary Device → Metaphor
- Writing Style → Narrator → Omniscient Narrator
- Subject → Parenthood
- Form → Prose Fiction
- Author Identity → LGBTQ+ Authors → Queer Authors
- Subject → Relationships
- Subject → Sexuality
- Region → Urban Literature
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Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
Stories
Featured on CBC’s The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers
The debut collection from PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and ‘propulsive storyteller’ (NYT Book Review), with stories that are by turns poignant and pulpy
In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of children steal a haunted doll; a runaway bride encounters a sea monster; a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly control the passage of time; an insomniac is seduced by the Sandman. These visions of modern life wrestle with themes of death and technological consequence, guilt and sexuality, as they unmask the contradictions that exist within all of us.