num_pages: 178
description: Weaving together fabulist invention and gritty realism Rebecca Fishow's debut collection The Trouble with Language unearths stories of men and women whose traumatic experiences make way for dazzlingly cerebral lives. A young man finds a severed head at his door years after his mother takes her own life. A married couple initiates a bloody jailbreak. A young woman poses nude for strangers in attempts to pay for mental health treatment while another finds herself rapidly shrinking in a hotel room. No two of these surprising and playful fictions are alike and each encourages us to peek behind life's curtains to discover more bizarre enchanting and joyful truths.
language: English
title: The Trouble with Language: Stories
publisher: Trnsfr Books