Hardly Children: Stories

A Boston Globe Fall Pick and a Library Journal Top Short Fiction for Fall selection An eerie debut collection featuring missing parents, unrequited love, and other uncomfortable moments A man hangs from the ceiling of an art gallery. A woman spells out messages to her sister using her own hair. Children deemed ?ad?are stolen from their homes. In Hardly Children, Laura Adamczyk? rich and eccentric debut collection, familiar worlds?ars, hotel rooms, cities that could very well be our own?um with uncanny dread. The characters in Hardly Children are keyed up, on the verge, full of desire. They?e lost, they?e in love with someone they shouldn? be, they?e denying uncomfortable truths using sex or humor. They are children waking up to the threats of adulthood, and adults living with childlike abandon. With command, caution, and subtle terror, Adamczyk shapes a world where death and the possibility of loss always emerge. Yet the shape of this loss is never fully revealed. Instead, it looms in the periphery of these stories, like an uncomfortable scene viewed out of the corner of one? eye.

Author: Laura Adamczyk

Publisher: Fsg Originals

Publication Date: Nov 20, 2018

Number of Pages: 240 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Fiction

ISBN-10: 0374167893

ISBN-13: 9780374167899