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Author Peynado, Brenda, 1985- author.

Title The rock eaters : stories / Brenda Peynado.

Publication Info. [New York] : Penguin Books, [2021]
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F PEYNADO, B.    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  PEYNADO, BRENDA    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F PEYNADO, BRENDA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Science Fiction  SFF PEYNADO BRENDA    Check Shelf
Description 276 pages ; 20 cm
Contents Thoughts and prayers -- The stones of Sorrow Lake -- The whitest girl -- Yaiza -- The drownings -- The great escape -- The kite maker -- What we lost -- The rock eaters -- True love game -- The touches -- The man I could be -- Catarina -- The dreamers -- We work in miraculous cages -- The radioactives.
Summary "A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to xenophobia. What does it mean to be other? This question murmurs in the heart of each of Brenda Peynado's strange and singular stories. Threaded with magic, transcending time and place, these stories explore what it means to cross borders and break down walls, personally and politically. In one story, suburban families perform oblations to cattlelike angels who live on their roofs, believing that their 'thoughts and prayers' will protect them from the world's violence. In another, inhabitants of an unnamed dictatorship slowly lose their own agency as pieces of their bodies go missing and, with them, the essential rights that those appendages serve. 'The Great Escape' tells of an old woman who hides away in her apartment, reliving the past among beautiful objects she's hoarded, refusing all visitors, until she disappears completely. In the title story, children begin to levitate, flying away from their parents and their home country, leading them to eat rocks in order to stay grounded. With elements of science fiction and fantasy, fabulism and magical realism, Brenda Peynado uses her stories to reflect our flawed world, and the incredible, terrifying, and marvelous nature of humanity"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Short stories.
Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
Xenophobia -- Fiction.
Social classes -- Fiction.
Virtual reality -- Fiction.
Ghost stories.
Noncitizens -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
Short stories.
Social problem fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
ISBN 9780143135623 (paperback)
0143135627 (paperback)
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