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The rock eaters : stories /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peynado, Brenda, 1985- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, [2021]
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration > Fiction.
Xenophobia > Fiction.
Social classes > Fiction.
Virtual reality > Fiction.
Ghost stories.
Aliens > Fiction.
Table of 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.