Homesick: Stories
Ratings3
Average rating4.3
15
Ratings3
Average rating4.3
Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme of home and our estrangement from it, and what happens when the familiar suddenly shifts into the uncanny. In stories that foreground queer relationships and transgender or nonbinary characters, Cipri delivers the origin story for a superhero team comprised of murdered girls; a housecleaner discovering an impossible ocean in her least-favorite clients’ house; a man haunted by keys that appear suddenly in his throat; and a team of scientists and activists discovering the remains of a long-extinct species of intelligent weasels.
In the spirit of Laura van den Berg, Emily Geminder, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, and other winners of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, Nino Cipri’s debut collection announces the arrival of a brilliant and wonderfully unpredictable writer with a gift for turning the short story on its ear.
Reviews with the most likes.
Giving five stars specifically for The Shape Of My Name, which punched me right in the heart, and Before We Disperse Like Star Stuff, which I swear to god could be about real people with the way the dialogue was written, but all of the stories were good.
Everything in this book feels simultaneously grounded in reality and delightfully speculative, with sci-fi, paranormal, and horror elements interspersed perfectly with complex queer characters and messy relationships of all kinds and cool story formats. I'm gonna be thinking about this book for a good long while.
trans power (or how more people should absolutely be writing about trans time travellers and trans scientists)
Featured Prompt
1,890 booksWhen you think back on every book you've ever read, what are some of your favorites? These can be from any time of your life – books that resonated with you as a kid, ones that shaped your personal...
Prompt
10 books
