Boldly blending fables and myths with apocalyptic technologies, Amber Sparks holds a singular role in the canon of the weird. Having garnered acclaim for her shimmering collection The Unfinished World, she reaches uncanny heights with And I Do Not Forgive You. In prose that beats with urgency, these contemporary stories read like the best of fairytalesāwhich are, as Sparks writes, just a warning disguised as a wish.
In āMildly Happy, With Moments of Joy,ā a friend is ghosted by a simple text message; in āEveryoneās a Winner at Meadow Park,ā a teen precariously coming of age in a trailer park befriends an actual ghost. Indeed, the depths of friendship are examined under the most trying circumstances.
Humorous and unapologetically fierce, other stories shine an interrogating light on the adage that āhistory likes to lie about womenā? as the subjects of āYou Wonāt Believe What Really Happened to the Sabine Womenā (itās true, you wonāt) will attest. Sparks employs her vast knowledge of the morbid and macabre in āThe Eyes of Saint Lucy,ā in which a young girl creates elaborately violent dioramas of famous saints with her mother. And in āA Short and Speculative History of Lavoisierās Wife,ā the great efforts of French chemist Lavoisierās widow to ensure his legacy are chillingly revealed.
Taken together, this hypnotic and otherworldly collection seeks to reclaim the lives of the silenced. And what is history, Sparks asks, but the chance to dig up our skeletons and give them new stories? Humorous and unapologetically fierce, And I Do Not Forgive You offers a mosaic of an all-too-real world that too often fails to listen to its goddesses.
This book title, And I Do Not Forgive You (Stories and Other Revenges), ISBN: 9781631496202, by Amber Sparks, published by Liveright (February 11, 2020) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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