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Title:
Breakable things / Cassandra Khaw.
ISBN:
9781988964379
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Publication Information:
Pickering, ON, Canada : Undertow Publications, [2022]

©2022
Physical Description:
245 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Don't turn on the lights -- A leash of foxes, their stories like barter -- Radio werewolf -- Recite her the names of pain -- Kiss, don't tell -- An ocean of eyes -- Truth that lies under skin and meat -- Mothers, we dream -- How selkies are made -- A secret of devils -- Goddess, worm -- A priest of vast and distant places -- Games we play -- For the things we never said -- She who hungers, she who waits -- Monologue by an unnamed mage, recorded at the brink of the end -- You do nothing but freefall -- Ghost stories we tell around photon fires -- Quiet like a homecoming -- And in our daughters, we find a voice -- In the rustle of pages -- Bargains by the slant-light -- Some breakable things.
Summary:
Explores the fragile and nebulous bonds that weave love and grief into our existence. This exquisite and cutting collection of stories showcases a bloody fusion of horrors from cosmic to psychological to body traumas.
OCLC Number:
on1304815048
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