There is only us / stories by Zoe Ballering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ballering, Zoe, 1990- author.

Series:

Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction series ; no. 21.

Katherine Anne Porter Prize in short fiction series ; number 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loneliness--Fiction.

Loneliness.

Belonging (Social psychology)--Fiction.

Belonging (Social psychology).

Self-consciousness (Awareness)--Fiction.

Self-consciousness (Awareness).

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

184 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2022]

Summary:

"The eight stories of speculative fiction in There Is Only Us explore themes of loneliness, connectedness, and selfhood. Each one is an act of intimacy -- an altered world shown through the lens of a close relationship. Brothers, sisters, lovers, mothers, and daughters come together in myriad constellations, often so that one character can make a body-altering choice of extreme proportions. In a variety of forms -- from a satirical retelling of Noah's Ark to a sister drama revolving around naked mole rats -- There Is Only Us presents a series of escalating scenarios, intimate and yet absurd, that ask, how much can you change and still be you? Ballering's stories bring to speculative fiction a new lightness and absurdity and a commitment to contemporary experiences of loneliness, especially among Millennials: loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic, ecological loneliness (the sense that, by the end of this century, the earth will be barren), and the unsolvable loneliness that so many experience despite carrying around a tiny device that claims it can connect them to any human anywhere on earth"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Ark

&

Substances: A School Year

Mothers

Double or Nothing

Is That Sweet?

Luz Luz

Here I Am

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

"2022 Winner, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction."

Other Format:

Online version: Ballering, Zoe, 1990- There is only us

ISBN:

9781574418804

1574418807

OCLC:

1331414538