An NPR Best Book of 2021 NYPL 10 Best Books for Adults, 2021 A
story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link,
and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using
strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from
class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to
xenophobia What does it mean to be other? What does it mean to love
in a world determined to keep us apart? These questions murmur in
the heart of each of Brenda Peynado's strange and singular stories.
Threaded with magic, transcending time and place, these stories
explore what it means to cross borders and break down walls,
personally and politically. In one story, suburban families perform
oblations to cattlelike angels who live on their roofs, believing
that their "thoughts and prayers" will protect them from the
world's violence. In another, inhabitants of an unnamed
dictatorship slowly lose their own agency as pieces of their bodies
go missing and, with them, the essential rights that those
appendages serve. "The Great Escape" tells of an old woman who
hides away in her apartment, reliving the past among beautiful
objects she's hoarded, refusing all visitors, until she disappears
completely. In the title story, children begin to levitate, flying
away from their parents and their home country, leading them to eat
rocks in order to stay grounded. With elements of science fiction
and fantasy, fabulism and magical realism, Brenda Peynado uses her
stories to reflect our flawed world, and the incredible,
terrifying, and marvelous nature of humanity.
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