Before and Afterlives
Author | : Christopher Barzak |
Publisher | : Lethe Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2013 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781590213698 |
ISBN-13 | : 1590213696 |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Discover the haunting stories of Crawford Award-winning author Christopher Barzak in his new collection Before and Afterlives. These are tales of relationships with unearthly domesticity and eeriness: a woman falls in love with a haunted house; a beached mermaid is substituted for a lost missing daughter; the imaginary friend of a murdered young mother stalks the streets of her small town; a teenage boy is afflicted with a disease that causes him to vanish; a father exploits his daughter's talent for calling ghosts to her; and a wife leaves her husband and children to fulfill her obligations to a world from which she escaped.