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Cargando... I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinkingpor Leyna Krow
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I adore the cover. I adore the title. I just knew the words inside would be my thing, my jam. And these words are very much my jam! It's another one of those quirky short story collections I am so glad that I found. I say quirky, but I think the stories are actually much more grounded than I expected. Tying the isolation of humans with nature, ocean trips, space trips... and lots of squid. Sometimes slightly sci-fi in nature, or sometimes just nature/ ecology. Like any good short story collection, there is sometimes only one that I don't find quite as good, only because I wish for more detail, that the story was longer. These characters are fully formed and real. A treasure box of stories here! This is a very solid collection I can add to my list of favorites. I would set this on the shelf beside the short story collections of: Sharma Shields (who has a blurb on this book that I was delighted to see!), Sarah Pinsker, Kelly Link, Lara Ehrlich, Premee Mohamed, Donald Quist. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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InI'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking the strange and the mundane collide. These are stories of strange experiences set in familiar places, and of familiar experiences set in strange places. Many of the pieces inI'm Fine take place close to home, in suburban neighborhoods, or rural communities. The settings are conventional, yet something unexpected, or even magical, is occurring. In one piece, a couple speculates about random objects that appear without reason in their backyard. In another, neighbors try to figure out if a local meth dealer is keeping a live tiger captive on his property. In other pieces, it's the setting that's fantastical, but the characters' reactions that remain ordinary, like in the titular story where a journalist lost at sea and hunted by a mythical ocean creature admits to struggling with loneliness and isolation in much the same way he does even when he's safe at home. Although they are not directly linked by any specific character, the pieces in this collection are bound through reoccurring imagery and a shared theme of protagonists in emotional peril. There are unexpected appearances and disappearances, movement of inanimate objects, the search for something lost, the finding of something unusual. There are prophesies, dreams, unidentifiable creatures, and environmental catastrophes on a scale both large and small. There are action figures and octopuses,sullen teenagers and missing cats. At their core, these stories are imbued with mystery, oddity, humor, and empathy. They each stand on their own, but mean considerably more when read together. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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