Fen
Subtitle: stories
By: Daisy Johnson
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: [Minneapolis, Minn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781555977740
Subjects: Imaginary places; Fiction
Description: Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with familiar instincts, with sex and desire, with everyday routine. But the wild is always close at hand, ready to erupt. This is a place where animals and people commingle and fuse, where curious metamorphoses take place, where myth and dark magic still linger. So here a teenager may starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl. A woman might give birth to a well what?
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Starver.; title: Blood rites --; title: A bruise the shape and size of a door handle --; title: How to lose it --; title: How to fuck a man you don't know --; title: Language --; title: The superstition of albatross --; title: A heavy devotion --; title: The scattering: a story in three parts -- -- pt. II.; title: Birthing stones --; title: The cull --; title: The lighthouse keeper.