The rock eaters, stories, Brenda Peynado
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The rock eaters, stories, Brenda Peynado
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
short stories
Main title
The rock eaters
Oclc number
1176515297
Responsibility statement
Brenda Peynado
Sub title
stories
Summary
"A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to xenophobia. What does it mean to be other? What does it mean to love in a world determined to keep us apart? These questions murmur in the heart of each of Brenda Peynado's strange and singular stories. Threaded with magic, transcending time and place, these stories explore what it means to cross borders and break down walls, personally and politically. In one story, suburban families perform oblations to cattlelike angels who live on their roofs, believing that their 'thoughts and prayers' will protect them from the world's violence. In another, inhabitants of an unnamed dictatorship slowly lose their own agency as pieces of their bodies go missing and, with them, the essential rights that those appendages serve. 'The Great Escape' tells of an old woman who hides away in her apartment, reliving the past among beautiful objects she's hoarded, refusing all visitors, until she disappears completely. In the title story, children begin to levitate, flying away from their parents and their home country, leading them to eat rocks in order to stay grounded. With elements of science fiction and fantasy, fabulism and magical realism, Brenda Peynado uses her stories to reflect our flawed world, and the incredible, terrifying, and marvelous nature of humanity."--, Provided by publisher
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- Réalité virtuelle -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Ghost stories
- Xénophobie -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Foreign Nationals
- Magic realist fiction
- Xenophobia -- Fiction
- Social problem fiction
- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
- Social classes -- Fiction
- Virtual reality -- Fiction
- Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction
- Ghost stories
- Extraterrestres -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Histoires de fantômes
- Émigration et immigration -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Histoires de fantômes
- Short stories
- Nouvelles
- Classes sociales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
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Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre6
- Subject19
- Réalité virtuelle -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Ghost stories
- Xénophobie -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Foreign Nationals
- Magic realist fiction
- Xenophobia -- Fiction
- Social problem fiction
- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
- Social classes -- Fiction
- Virtual reality -- Fiction
- Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction
- Ghost stories
- Extraterrestres -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Histoires de fantômes
- Émigration et immigration -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Histoires de fantômes
- Short stories
- Nouvelles
- Classes sociales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Content1
- Author1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1