Description
In her debut story collection Heartbreaker, Maryse Meijer peels back the crust of normalcy and convention, unmasking the fury and violence we are willing to inflict in the name of love and loneliness. Her characters are a strange ensemble-a feral child, a girl raised from the dead, a possible pedophile-who share in vulnerability and heartache, but maintain an unremitting will to survive. Meijer deals in desire and sex, femininity and masculinity, family and girlhood, crafting a landscape of appetites threatening to self-destruct. In beautifully restrained and exacting prose, she sets the marginalized free to roam her pages and burn our assumptions to the ground.
Author: Maryse Meijer
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 07/12/2016
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780374536060
ISBN10: 0374536066
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Psychological
About the Author
Maryse Meijer's work has appeared in Meridian, The Saint Ann's Review, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Portland Review, and actual paper. She lives in Chicago.
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