Publish Date |
April 11, 2025 |
Category |
Fiction / City Life Fiction / Short Stories |
Price |
$20.95 |
ISBN: 9781553807261
Format: Paperback
Pages: 164
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
Published: April 11, 2025
"Like the characters centred in these stories, Inside the House Inside is unconventional. This literary risk of a collection is meant for readers who want to feel things and aren't too hung up on whether or not those feelings are pleasant. It is about the brute savagery of survival. It is about the complicated haven our minds weave out of denial and delusion and hope and love after our cries for help go unanswered." - Brittany Coy-Pinnock, Humber Literary Review
"Inside the House Inside inhabits a space somewhere between our dreams and our nightmares. Moving deftly between realism and something much stranger, these stories are uncanny and moving at once. They excavate the basement and the attic in language at once direct and lyrical, and their brevity haunts." - Kate Cayley, award-winning author of Lent and How you Were Born
"On every level - the phrase, sentence, story, collection - this book vibrates with the intensity of distilled experience. The stories are bite-sized wonders. They explode once ingested, like you've swallowed whole worlds. They chart the incomprehension, loss, scarcity, insecurity, and fear that are the outcome of our world's economic inequality and unfolding climate catastrophe. Like Kafka's stories, they can overflow the bounds of the real to illustrate the true. Like George Saunders', they replicate with delightful exactitude the rhythms of the characters psyches. The motivating core of them is love and compassion, but not those two alone. Love. Compassion. And warning." - Anne Fleming, author of Giller-nominated Curiosities