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Night Beast
Night Beast | Ruth Joffre
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A masterful collection from an important new voice in American fiction, Night Beast is a gorgeously written work of profound originality and vision. These doomed love stories and twisted fairytales explore the lives of womenparticularly queer women and mothersand reveal the monsters lurking in our daily lives: the madness, isolation, betrayals, and regrets that arise as we seek human connection. Through this collection, readers are taken to places where the sun never sets, where cornfields rustle ominously and sleepwalkers prowl the night. In Weekend, the lead actors of an avant-garde television show begin to confuse their characters identities with their own; in Go West, and Grow Up, a young girl living in a car with her mother is forced to shed her innocence too soon; and in Safekeeping, a woman trapped inside a futuristic safehouse gradually unravels as she waits for her lover, who may never return. With exquisite prose and transfixing imagery, Joffre explores worlds both strange and familiar, homing in on the darker side of humanity. Powerful, unsettling, and wildly imaginative, Night Beast is a mind-bending, genre-hopping debut, a provocative and uncommonly raw examination of relationships and sexuality, trauma and redemption, the meaning of family, and coming-of-ageand growing oldas an outsider.
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Short stories: daughters, mothers, sisters, lovers, queer, straight. Dream worlds w/ promise of love & threat of violence. Faves: “Go West, and Grow Up”—mother/daughter living out of their car, “Weekend”—actors in long-term roles, familiarity, performance, intimacy. “I think part of me has always believed love should be like this—painful and hidden, only making itself known when you least expect it and are unprepared for the damage it can do.”2018

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If Kelly Link blurbs it, I'm gonna put my nose in it.

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