A woman visits her cremation from inside the body of her dead self, a competitive couple trains as free-divers, a mother loses her son on a freeway. While embodying unusual premises and worlds, these stories are fearlessly nontraditional in their structure and approach. Each story is its own unique thing, a small but profound nod to the human condition.
“This collection has an astonishing range of styles and subject matters – it seems that there’s no character or situation the author is afraid to explore, and the stories are full of surprising experimentation and a balance between realism and the weird that I found deeply compelling…”
“It is truly a book of revelations, magical realism turned upside down and inside out. The imagination here is extraordinary: an old woman’s last thoughts on her way to being cremated, a mother who loses her son on a freeway, and a woman in deep conversation with all her dead relatives on her way home for the first time in decades.…”
