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Homesick
Homesick: Stories | Nino Cipri
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Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme of home and our estrangement from it, and what happens when the familiar suddenly shifts into the uncanny. In stories that foreground queer relationships and transgender or nonbinary characters, Cipri delivers the origin story for a superhero team comprised of murdered girls; a housecleaner discovering an impossible ocean in her least-favorite clients' house; a man haunted by keys that appear suddenly in his throat; and a team of scientists and activists discovering the remains of a long-extinct species of intelligent weasels. In the spirit of Laura van den Berg, Emily Geminder, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, and other winners of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, Nino Cipri's debut collection announces the arrival of a brilliant and wonderfully unpredictable writer with a gift for turning the short story on its ear.
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Robotswithpersonality
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I didn't know it was possible to love EVERY story in a short story collection but I really, really did. Honestly, it shouldn't be a surprise that Nino Cipri is the one who finally accomplished it for me, since I've also loved their novellas.
Mostly sci-fi, some horror but also love and hope. Final story in particular is heart-warming and hilarious. (It might be my own grad school experience that biases me towards it.) 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/3 Part of what makes me love their writing so much is the completely natural inclusion of gender expression/exploration in various narratives; then there is the almost casual magical realism/sci-fi/creature elements sprinkled among the day-to-day lives of the characters.
The variety of story telling styles/formats at play here makes it even more fun to read as a collection.
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Robotswithpersonality 3/3 The stories' dealing with themes of gender and queerness (as well as characters of colour) realistically, sadly, include characters encountering hate and prejudice, but there's something so gentle and proud in the characters facing such, this clearly conveyed message that having difficulty with the truth of one's identity is something the other person will have to work through and maybe one day they'll be forgiven for having the wrong/oppressive/offensive mindset/attitude.
⚠️ Transphobia, homophobia, racism
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Robotswithpersonality
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Just Nino Cipri in their acknowledgements being a very relatable human. 🌳🌲♥️

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Robotswithpersonality
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Today's phrase that scratched my brain just right:
"...truths that were clipped and groomed into manageable, sensible creatures."

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Robotswithpersonality
Homesick: Stories | Nino Cipri
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Nino Cipri's weird is my kinda weird.

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ReadingEnvy
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I really loved this collection of speculative short stories (and those who know me know that stories are not typically my jam, so they have to be excellent to keep my attention!) - top marks for transgender and nonbinary representation, also just playing with tropes in new ways.

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Kenyazero
Homesick: Stories | Nino Cipri
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Every week, I'm highlighting #lgbtqauthors. 🏳️‍🌈 Nino Cipri has been known to wear many hats in addition to being a writer, editor, and educator, including screenplay writer, puppeteer, and bike mechanic. They earned the Dzanc Short Fiction Collection Prize for Homesick, and support #multimedia storytelling (also called #transmedia). #lgbtqvoices #lgbtq #nonbinary #transgender #queer

wicdiv I love that you're doing this and you've chosen Nino for it. So excited for their sequel to Finna. 4y
Kenyazero @wicdiv It has been an excellent way to introduce myself to more LGBTQ+ authors! I saw the post you shared about trans authors and added the people I wasn't familiar with to my list, and Nino was one of them. I look forward to reading their work! 4y
SW-T I‘m excited about the sequel to Finna! 😊 4y
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Kenyazero @wicdiv @SW-T it sounds like Finna might need to be one of my next reads! 4y
Kenyazero The book app I'm using recommend that I might also like the sequel to Unwind, which does not bode well for my enjoyment of Finna! I plan to give it a read anyway though. 4y
SW-T @Kenyazero Finna was short, but felt fully developed. Plus, wormholes and alternate dimensions accessed through an IKEA clone. I‘m a sucker for quirky! 4y
Kenyazero @SW-T I do love quirky books! 4y
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khooliha
Homesick: Stories | Nino Cipri
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Was too anxious to get the sleep I badly need, so I finished the novella that closes this book and was soothed. Thank you for being good, book!