A Small Apocalypse: Stories
Laura Chow Reeve
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
A gorgeously wrought exploration of what it means to exist in the in-between. In her debut short-story collection A Small Apocalypse, Laura Chow Reeve examines cultural inheritance, hybridity, queerness, and the stickiness of home with an eye for both the uncanny and the realistic: human bodies become reptilian, queer ghosts haunt their friends, a young woman learns to pickle memories, and a theater floods during an apocalyptic movie marathon. The characters in A Small Apocalypse weave in and out of its fourteen stories, confronting their sense of otherness and struggling to find new ways of being and belonging. Heavily steeped in the swampy, feral heat of Florida, these stories venture beyond the problems of constructing an identity to the frontier of characters living their truth in a world that doesn't yet have a place for them.
Product Details
Price
$24.00
$22.32
Publisher
Triquarterly Books
Publish Date
March 15, 2024
Pages
184
Dimensions
5.91 X 8.9 X 0.71 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780810146945
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About the Author
LAURA CHOW REEVE is a writer and illustrator living in Richmond, Virginia. Her fiction has been published in the Rumpus, Catapult, and Joyland, among other publications. Her story in Hyphen was a 2017 winner of the Pen/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and featured on LeVar Burton Reads.
Reviews
Named a most anticipated book of 2024 by The Rumpus and Debutiful Included in Bitter Southerner's Summer Reading Roundup "This debut collection functions as an exploration of radical subversiveness--of race and ethnicity, of gender and sexuality, of models of family and community, even of species. Lines blur, categories coalesce, and hybridity reigns supreme." --Kirkus "Anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, will find this work to be resonant, poignant, and, perhaps, startlingly cathartic." --Booklist "Reeve is, above all else, a remarkably sound architect of the short story. Her prose is lucid; it forestalls confusion even as she describes things that are hard to imagine, or hard to talk about. It's always nice to know there's somebody trustworthy at the wheel. I think I shall start lending this book to my friends and lovers, dead and living, and let it make the rounds." --Full Stop "A Small Apocalypse is messy--but that isn't a bad thing. The opposite, actually. While the young queer characters are confident in some aspects of their lives, most of the time they are imbued with a refreshing uncertainty about themselves and the bodies they inhabit. It can be quirky and lighthearted in one moment but dark and lonely the next." --Third Coast Review "A Small Apocalypse is queer Florida at its absolute finest. Laura Chow Reeve has written a group of stories that astonish, mesmerize, and amaze in equal measure. I enjoyed every moment. A smashing collection!" --Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth "The stories in A Small Apocalypse all feel wildly different--Laura Chow Reeve's debut offers readers real range--but they are also united beautifully by their thematic territory, by the author's distinctive way of seeing, and by the vividly conveyed and evocative Floridian setting. I love this collection." -- Clare Beams, author of The Illness Lesson
