Rag: Stories. by. Maryse Meijer. · Rating details · ratings · 68 reviews. One of Vol. 1 Brooklyn and www.doorway.ru's Books to Read in February. From the author of Heartbreaker, a disquieting collection tracing the destructive consequences of the desire for connection. A man, forgotten by the world, takes care of his deaf brother while euthanizing dogs for a living/5. · The New York Times Book Review. a disturbing, forceful story collection sharp, haunting [Meijer] writes wonderfully of the trap of the self, with its impossible prisons of 3/4(10). · Meijer's explosive debut collection, Heartbreaker, reinvented sexualized and romantic taboos, holding nothing back. In Rag, Meijer's fearless follow-up, she shifts her focus to the dark heart of intimacies of all kinds, and the ways in which isolated people's yearning for community can breed violence, danger, and madness. With unparalleled precision, Meijer spins stories that leave you .
FICTION - SHORT STORIES Rag Maryse Meijer FSG Originals Published Febru. The Chicago Review of Books Newsletter Our monthly newsletter to help you keep up with Chirb-related goings on. SIGN UP. I would like to receive news and special offers. Tags. Chicago horror Maryse Meijer Rag short stories. 0 Comments. In many ways, Rag functions as a thematic continuation of Meijer's novella Northwood, which uses the trope of the "cabin in the woods" to explore the liminal spaces of desire, fear, and violence. Meijer's short stories operate under an atmosphere of threat, her close-to-the-bone writing style crafting a sparsity from which its most. Rag: Stories. by Maryse Meijer. The narrator of "Her Blood," the riveting opening story in Maryse Meijer's new story collection, Rag, is a teenage pizza parlor employee who must mop blood off the floor after a customer suffers a miscarriage in the ladies room. A virgin, he imagines "having what she had, a place in my body that could.
"Maryse Meijer is a fearless writer. In these wild and inventive stories, Meijer brilliantly channels the most unsettled corners of the human heart. Rag is a glittering nightmare, a wilderness aflame with violence and desire, a harrowing and profound collection." --Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel. In Rag, Meijer’s fearless follow-up, she shifts her focus to the dark heart of intimacies of all kinds, and the ways in which isolated people’s yearning for community can breed violence, danger, and madness. With unparalleled precision, Meijer spins stories that leave you troubled and slightly shaken by her uncanny ability to elicit empathy for society’s most marginalized people. The New York Times Book Review. a disturbing, forceful story collection sharp, haunting [Meijer] writes wonderfully of the trap of the self, with its impossible prisons of circumstance and identity, not to mention the perversity of being buried alive, alone, inside a body.
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