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Fruiting Bodies

By Kathryn Harlan

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Fruiting Bodies

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
242
Release Date:
2024-10-15
Publication Date:
2024-10-15
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1324089016
ISBN13:
9781324089018
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
228 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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