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avant-garde literature
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Catherine Doctorow Prize winner
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Experimental fiction
experimental storytelling
experimental writing
FC2
Feminist surreal fiction
fiction
fiction collective 2
Fiction with walking dolls and allegory
Literary fiction about grief and decay
midwest
Midwest gothic literature
novel
opiods
rust belt
Rust Belt literary fiction
Stories about opioid crisis and war
Surreal horror fiction
Susan Neville short stories
The Town of Whispering Dolls Susan Neville
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- ISBN 9781573661850
- Weight: 308g
- Dimensions: 137 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 03 Mar 2020
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Stories haunted by the manufacturing past of the Midwest, the opioid epidemic, and the technology of war.
Located somewhere in the rust belt in the early twenty-first century, residents of the town of Whispering Dolls dream of a fabled and illusory past, even as new technologies reshape their world into something different and deeply strange. Dolls walk down the streets, cradling their empty heads and letting the wind turn them into flutes. A politician heads to Washington, DC, and leaves a toxic underground plume in his wake. A woman eats car parts instead of confronting the children who have forgotten her. A young woman falls in love with the robot who took her job at the candy factory.
In The Town of Whispering Dolls, it is usually the grandmothers and the children who grieve. Feeling invisible, in the story Here, a woman who has buried her children looks up at the sky where commercial and military jets fly overhead and tries to express her rage to the rich and powerful: Keep flying above us in your planes. From one coast to the other, keep right on flying over us! We test your bombs and your beloved warriors. Here. Right here. Look down.
Located somewhere in the rust belt in the early twenty-first century, residents of the town of Whispering Dolls dream of a fabled and illusory past, even as new technologies reshape their world into something different and deeply strange. Dolls walk down the streets, cradling their empty heads and letting the wind turn them into flutes. A politician heads to Washington, DC, and leaves a toxic underground plume in his wake. A woman eats car parts instead of confronting the children who have forgotten her. A young woman falls in love with the robot who took her job at the candy factory.
In The Town of Whispering Dolls, it is usually the grandmothers and the children who grieve. Feeling invisible, in the story Here, a woman who has buried her children looks up at the sky where commercial and military jets fly overhead and tries to express her rage to the rich and powerful: Keep flying above us in your planes. From one coast to the other, keep right on flying over us! We test your bombs and your beloved warriors. Here. Right here. Look down.
Susan Neville is professor of creative writing and Demia Butler Chair in English at Butler University. She is author of Invention of Flight: Stories, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and In the House of Blue Lights, winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction.
