Double-Check for Sleeping Children: Stories

The winner of the FC2 Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Double-Check for Sleeping Children is the...
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Author: Kirstin Allio
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Double-Check for Sleeping Children: Stories by Allio, Kirstin

Double-Check for Sleeping Children: Stories

Dhs. 113.55

Double-Check for Sleeping Children: Stories

Dhs. 113.55
Author: Kirstin Allio
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The winner of the FC2 Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Double-Check for Sleeping Children is the newest work by award-winning writer Kirstin Allio

At once formal and tidal, damning and dreaming, Kirstin Allio's Double-Check for Sleeping Children is charged with prayer, curse, redemption and abasement. Does truth come from reason, or beauty, or suffering? It takes the inner lives of outsiders, dark mirrors, and false ceilings to find an answer.

Families split by social class, a wealthy young widow, addicts, hunters, poor whites, a green card bride and a nursing mother: in twenty poetically and morally propulsive short stories, Allio disquiets the sublimated and palpates shadows. She leads us through the sometimes flooded, other times flood-lit halls of the human soul.

Part menacing, macabre Mary Gaitskill, part Denis Johnson in Jesus' Son, and with the taut, wry, tell-all detail of Elizabeth Hardwick, Double-Check for Sleeping Children deals in codedness and transgression. The stories explore coming of age in middle age, anxiety about time and technology, inverted revelation. "What was I supposed to do with Basho and Mosie?" Sheila asks herself about her children in "Uncollected Territories." "Be my real self? Hand myself over, do what you will with me, plant your strange selves in my private soil?"



Author: Kirstin Allio
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 08/22/2024
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9781573662062

About the Author

KIRSTIN ALLIO is author of Garner, Buddhism for Western Children, and her first story collection Clothed, Female Figure is a winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Competition.


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