The year of the monster / Tara Stillions Whitehead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitehead, Tara Stillions, author.

Contributor:

Local Philadelphia : A Novel Idea Bookstore Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories

Short stories.

Physical Description:

201 pages : 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon : Unsolicited Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Monster challenges the moral binaries of traditional story justice, situating vulnerable characters in strange, transgressive spaces: A disgraced high school math teacher gives birth to a black hole. Two women discover a dead bird in a near-future when wildlife is extinct. A man finds relief in losing his wife to a tornado. An Army wife coping with isolation is unable to escape media coverage of her former lover facing execution on death row. A cast of Hollywood characters catalog the process of dehumanization in an industry fueled by erasure: a young PA is forced to inoculate a drunk B-list actor in her trailer; two men negotiate a high-profile film project while rewriting the rape trial and suicide of a woman from film school; a young assistant is assaulted-and swept under the rug-while working on the number one sitcom in America."--Amazon.

ISBN:

1956692339

9781956692334

OCLC:

1314429257