Descripción
In beautifully melancholy stories of magical realism, the women and girls in Softie transform their bodies and test their sanity, trying to find meaning in the loneliest of places.
A former child star haunted by a past she can't remember. An Afro-French girl with an obsession for ear lobes. A loner whose only friend is hiding a terrible, otherworldly secret. Each of these stories shares situations that are sometimes fantastical, sometimes commonplace, but always strange. From a Corsican vacation town in its off-season to hospital rooms and a seedy hotel suite in Chicago, experience the every day come fully untethered from reality.
Author: Megan Howell
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 12/01/2024
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.29h x 5.65w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9781959000310
ISBN10: 1959000314
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | African American & Black | General
- Fiction | Magical Realism
About the Author
Megan Howell is a DC-based writer. She earned her MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland in College Park, winning both the Jack Salamanca Thesis Award and the Kwiatek Fellowship. Her work has appeared in McSweeney's, The Nashville Review and The Establishment among other publications.