Surprise Castle
Fruiting Bodies: Stories

Fruiting Bodies: Stories - Paperback

$12.99
$17.99
-28%
Quantity
01

Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with

Availability:In StockContributor:Kathryn HarlanPublish date:2024-10-15Pages:268
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9781324089018ISBN-10:1324089016UPC:9781324089018Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, LGBTQ+Size:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCKF3GTG9R

In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows characters--mostly queer, mostly women--on the precipice of change. Echoes of timeless myth and folklore reverberate through urgent narratives of discovery, appetite, and coming-of-age in a time of crisis.

In "The Changeling," two young cousins wait in dread for a new family member to arrive, convinced that he may be a dangerous supernatural creature. In "Endangered Animals," Jane prepares to say goodbye to her almost-love while they road-trip across a country irrevocably altered by climate change. In "Take Only What Belongs to You," a queer woman struggles with the personal history of an author she idolized, while in "Fiddler, Fool, Pair," an anthropologist is drawn into a magical--and dangerous--gamble. In the title story, partners Agnes and Geb feast peacefully on the mushrooms that sprout from Agnes's body--until an unwanted male guest disturbs their cloistered home.

Audacious, striking, and wholly original, Fruiting Bodies offers stories about knowledge in a world on the verge of collapse, knowledge that alternately empowers or devastates. Pulling beautifully, brazenly, from a variety of literary traditions, Kathryn Harlan firmly establishes herself as a thrilling new voice in fiction.


Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9781324089018ISBN-10:1324089016UPC:9781324089018Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, LGBTQ+Size:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCKF3GTG9R
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Contributor(s)

Kathryn Harlan

Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Returns accepted within 30 days of purchase.

Recently Viewed

View All