Milk blood heat : stories / Dantiel W. Moniz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moniz, Dantiel W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Florida--21st century--Fiction.

Florida.

Genre:

Short stories.

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

202 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may not, owe one another. A thirteen-year-old meditates on her sadness and the difference between herself and her white best friend when an unexpected tragedy occurs; a woman recovering from a miscarriage finds herself unable to let go of her daughter-whose body parts she sees throughout her daily life; a teenager resists her family's church and is accused of courting the devil; servers at a supper club cater to the insatiable cravings of their wealthy clientele; and two estranged siblings take a road trip with their father's ashes and are forced to face the troubling reality of how he continues to shape them. Wise and subversive, spiritual and seductive, Milk Blood Heat forms an ouroboros of stories that bewitch with their truth, announcing the arrival of a bright new literary star."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Milk blood heat

Feast

Tongues

The loss of heaven

The hearts of our enemies

Outside the raft

Snow

Necessary bodies

Thicker than water

Exotics

An almanac of bones.

Related Work:

Container of: Moniz, Dantiel W. Feast.

Container of: Moniz, Dantiel W. Tongues.

Container of: Moniz, Dantiel W. Loss of heaven.

Container of: Moniz, Dantiel W. Hearts of our enemies.

Container of: Moniz, Dantiel W. Outside the raft.

Container of: Moniz, Dantiel W. Snow.

Container of: Moniz, Dantiel W. Necessary bodies.

Container of: Moniz, Dantiel W. Thicker than water.

Container of: Moniz, Dantiel W. Exotics.

Container of: Moniz, Dantiel W. Almanac of bones.

ISBN:

9780802158154

0802158153

OCLC:

1158485500