Book description
A young woman falls in love with a biohacked model, a woman with gadgets implanted in various parts of her body. A mother searches for her missing daughter by taking on a hitchhiker in the hopes of finding a restaurant rumored to be a destination for runaways. A man suddenly…
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1 author picked The Runaway Restaurant as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I am always excited to encounter stories which blend the literary and the speculative, which are off-kilter without feeling gimmicky, which end up imparting on me the sense I have encountered something mysterious and resonant and fine. These sometimes bittersweet, sometimes hopeful short stories mingle quiet humour and longing with enough adventurousness to always feel fresh. This book, like the other two on my list this year, is published by an indie press (7.13 Books), and if you are ready for a luminous example of the uniqueness only a small press can offer, this collection will not disappoint.
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