Glorious frazzled beings / Angélique Lalonde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lalonde, Angélique, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home--Fiction.

Home.

Short stories, Canadian.

Genre:

Short stories, Canadian.

Domestic fiction.

Short stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

292 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

[Toronto] : Astoria, 2021.

Summary:

"Home is where we love, suffer, and learn. Some homes we chose, others are inflicted upon us, and still others are bodies we are born into. In this astounding collection of stories, human and more-than-human worlds come together in places we call home. Four sisters and their mother explore their fears while teeny ghost people dress up in fragments of their children's clothes. A somewhat-ghost tends the family garden. Deep in the mountains, a shapeshifting mother must sift through her ancestors' gifts and the complexities of love when one boy is born with a beautiful set of fox ears and another is not. In the wake of her elderly mother's tragic death, a daughter tries to make sense of the online dating profile she left behind. And a man named Pooka finds new ways to weave new stories into his abode, in spite of his inherited suffering. A startling and beguiling story collection, Glorious Frazzled Beings is a love song to the homes we make, keep, and break."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part one. Homecoming. Lady with the big head chronicle

The town Carmen found

Malarkey

Family sketches

Mom's online dating profile

Home (in four parts). Part two. Housekeeping. The leopard in the bathroom

Reflections for Rita-Mae on her fortieth birthday

A home for secrets

Understanding groceries

My five-week course in Ikebana

At the dentist

On alleviating oneself of guilt. Part three. Home breaking. Puff

The pregnancy test

Erosion

Merry Christmas

Ropes of entropy

Her unspoken name. Part four. Homing. The teeny ghost people and their garments

Pooka.

Notes:

Short stories.

Other Format:

Online version: Lalonde, Angélique. Glorious frazzled beings.

ISBN:

9781487009571

1487009577

OCLC:

1232512873

Publisher Number:

99989231534