We have never lived on Earth : stories / Kasia Van Schaik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Schaik, Kasia, author.

Series:

Robert Kroetsch series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of single parents--Fiction.

Children of single parents.

Women--Fiction.

Women.

South Africans--British Columbia--Fiction.

South Africans.

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Short stories.

short stories.

Linked stories.

Physical Description:

170 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : University of Alberta Press, 2022.

Summary:

"'Love in the age of microplastics.' Kasia Van Schaik's debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. The stories traverse the most intimate, violent, and transforming moments of female experience in a world threatened by ecological crisis. Charlotte navigates relationships--with lovers, parents, friends, and environments--as they form and fray. Mother and daughter wait out the end of a bad year in a Mexican hotel; a friendship is tested as forest fires demolish Charlotte's town; a childhood friend disappears while travelling through Europe; and a girl on the beach examines the memories of dying jellyfish. Each story asks: how do we find connection in a world shaped by isolation? How do we accept the new? Written in startling, poetic prose, We Have Never Lived On Earth captures the feelings and experiences of being a woman: physical and psychological threat, creativity, disappointment, objectification, and desire. Calling to mind Alice Munro's precocious Del Jordan and Rachel Cusk's Faye, these powerful portraits of female interiority balance nostalgia, fear, and hope for the future as they tell of the struggle to understand what it means to live on earth."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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Premium Girl

Highwayman

House on Carbonate

The Peninsula of Happiness

A Girl in Nova Scotia

A Girl Called Helsinki

Swimming Upright

How to Be Silent in German

Notes on a Separation

Visitor to Crete

Houseboat

Youth Orchestra

Stingray

Cellular Memory

The Cascades

This Is Fine

We Have Never Lived on Earth

An Ounce of Care.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Van Schaik, Kasia. We have never lived on Earth.

ISBN:

9781772126280

1772126284

OCLC:

1290429961