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And I do not forgive you : stories and other revenges / Amber Sparks.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2020]Edition: First editionDescription: x, 178 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781631496202
  • 1631496204
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Mildly unhappy, with moments of joy -- You won't believe what really happened to the Sabine women -- A place for hiding precious things -- Everyone's a winner in Meadow Park -- A short and slightly speculative history of Lavoisier's wife -- We destroy the Moon -- In which Athena designs a video game with the express purpose of trolling her father -- Is the future a nice place for girls -- Our mutual (theater) friend -- The dry cleaner from Des Moines -- The eyes of Saint Lucy -- We were a storybook back then -- Rabbit by rabbit -- Through the looking-glass -- The noises from the neighbors upstairs -- Our geographic history -- Death deserves all caps -- A wholly new and novel act, with monsters -- When the husband grew wings -- The language of the stars -- Mildly joyful, with moments of extraordinary unhappiness -- Tour of the cities we have lost.
Summary: "Exciting fans of such writers as Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Carmen Maria Machado with prose that shimmers and stings, Amber Sparks holds a singular role in the canon of the weird. Now, she reaches new, uncanny heights with And I Do Not Forgive You. In "Mildly Happy, With Moments of Joy," a friend is ghosted by a simple text message; in "Everyone's a Winner at Meadow Park," a teen precariously coming of age in a trailer park befriends an actual ghost. At once humorous and unapologetically fierce, these stories shine an interrogating light on the adage that "history likes to lie about women"- as the subjects of "A Short and Speculative History of Lavoisier's Wife" and "You Won't Believe What Really Happened to the Sabine Women" (it's true, you won't) will attest. Blending fairy tales and myths with apocalyptic technologies, all tethered intricately by shades of rage, And I Do Not Forgive You offers a mosaic of an all- too- real world that fails to listen to its silenced goddesses."-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Sparks, Amber Available 33111009595279
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Boldly blending fables and myths with apocalyptic technologies, Amber Sparks holds a singular role in the canon of the weird. Having garnered acclaim for her shimmering collection The Unfinished World, she reaches uncanny heights with And I Do Not Forgive You. In prose that beats with urgency, these contemporary stories read like the best of fairytales--which are, as Sparks writes, just a warning disguised as a wish.

In "Mildly Happy, With Moments of Joy," a friend is ghosted by a simple text message; in "Everyone's a Winner at Meadow Park," a teen precariously coming of age in a trailer park befriends an actual ghost. Indeed, the depths of friendship are examined under the most trying circumstances.

Humorous and unapologetically fierce, other stories shine an interrogating light on the adage that "history likes to lie about women"? as the subjects of "You Won't Believe What Really Happened to the Sabine Women" (it's true, you won't) will attest. Sparks employs her vast knowledge of the morbid and macabre in "The Eyes of Saint Lucy," in which a young girl creates elaborately violent dioramas of famous saints with her mother. And in "A Short and Speculative History of Lavoisier's Wife," the great efforts of French chemist Lavoisier's widow to ensure his legacy are chillingly revealed.

Taken together, this hypnotic and otherworldly collection seeks to reclaim the lives of the silenced. And what is history, Sparks asks, but the chance to dig up our skeletons and give them new stories? Humorous and unapologetically fierce, And I Do Not Forgive You offers a mosaic of an all-too-real world that too often fails to listen to its goddesses.

Mildly unhappy, with moments of joy -- You won't believe what really happened to the Sabine women -- A place for hiding precious things -- Everyone's a winner in Meadow Park -- A short and slightly speculative history of Lavoisier's wife -- We destroy the Moon -- In which Athena designs a video game with the express purpose of trolling her father -- Is the future a nice place for girls -- Our mutual (theater) friend -- The dry cleaner from Des Moines -- The eyes of Saint Lucy -- We were a storybook back then -- Rabbit by rabbit -- Through the looking-glass -- The noises from the neighbors upstairs -- Our geographic history -- Death deserves all caps -- A wholly new and novel act, with monsters -- When the husband grew wings -- The language of the stars -- Mildly joyful, with moments of extraordinary unhappiness -- Tour of the cities we have lost.

"Exciting fans of such writers as Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Carmen Maria Machado with prose that shimmers and stings, Amber Sparks holds a singular role in the canon of the weird. Now, she reaches new, uncanny heights with And I Do Not Forgive You. In "Mildly Happy, With Moments of Joy," a friend is ghosted by a simple text message; in "Everyone's a Winner at Meadow Park," a teen precariously coming of age in a trailer park befriends an actual ghost. At once humorous and unapologetically fierce, these stories shine an interrogating light on the adage that "history likes to lie about women"- as the subjects of "A Short and Speculative History of Lavoisier's Wife" and "You Won't Believe What Really Happened to the Sabine Women" (it's true, you won't) will attest. Blending fairy tales and myths with apocalyptic technologies, all tethered intricately by shades of rage, And I Do Not Forgive You offers a mosaic of an all- too- real world that fails to listen to its silenced goddesses."-- Provided by publisher.

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