Book description
"Carefully considered, successful instances of experimental fiction" disrupt gender, genre, and identity in this deranged, otherworldly collection (Literary Hub).
A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in love with an orchid; and hair starts sprouting from the walls. These stories…
Why read it?
1 author picked Slug and Other Stories as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love fiction that makes me reexamine what I want and how to acquire it best, and Milks’ short story collection is jam-packed with tales that do exactly that across a panoply of desires.
I find myself returning to this book every few months to check my narrative instincts as a writer: Am I being disgusting enough? Am I pulling the rug out from under the reader with enough force? Am I exerting sufficient control over the relationship between the reader and the read subject?
It’s a sharp, hilarious, jarring collection that keeps giving me something new at every read.
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