This winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize will be published in mid-May, so I haven't read it yet. But it sounds like a book I would enjoy. Here's what I know about the stories:
- A near-future farmer battling environmental crises takes in a mysterious girl he finds on the roadside.
- A bus driver navigates through treacherous weather and memories of her tragic past as she races to save children from the end of the world.
- A woman keeps giving birth to children from different time periods.
- And a woman struggles with her young daughter mysteriously transforming into something wild and unruly, confronting themes of motherhood and family.
The stories range from medieval Belgium to the near-future of the American Midwest, populated by mothers and monsters, mermaids and milkmaids, nuns and bus drivers — women in every walk of life, but particularly working-class women, navigating the intersection of the mundane and the magical.
some of these stories sound pretty out there. I hope you like it.
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