Mad prairie : stories and a novella / by Kate McIntyre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McIntyre, Kate, 1982- author.

Series:

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kansas--Fiction.

Kansas.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

160 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2021]

Summary:

"In this scary, funny, and slyly political short story collection, Kate McIntyre conjures a fever dream of contemporary Kansas. Boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, and grotesque acts birth strange progeny. A mother must choose between her children and her personal safety when her husband steadily excavates a moat around their country home, his very own little border wall. A Kansas politician grapples with international notoriety after an accident traps salt miners hundreds of feet underground--in the same salt mine where his brother was murdered. A bigot's newly transplanted liver gives him a taste for upbeat 80s dance tracks while nudging him toward darker plans. And, across several stories, we follow Miriam, a young overachiever hellbent on leaving her home state, who's lured back after college to teach elementary school in a rural community. In Culvert, Kansas, Miriam finds closed mouths and big secrets: the toxic waste storage for the battery factory leaches into the soil; the hog farm waste lagoons have sprung leaks; and her students, at turns psychic, lethargic, and aggressive, might not be human"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780820360744

0820360740

OCLC:

1245472366