Binding: Paperback
Description: From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot: a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us or go monstrously wrong. The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning clawing ravenous yearning: the hunger to be held and seen and known. And the terror too: to be loved too well or not enough or for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheart to their horror. To be recognized as the monstrous thing you are. Two teenage girls working at a sinister roadside attraction called the Eternal Staircase explore its secrets and their own doomed summer love. A zombie rooster plays detective in a missing persons case. A woman moves into a new house with her acclaimed artist boyfriend and finds her body slowly shifting into something specially constructed to accommodate his needs and whims. A pack of middle schoolers turn to the occult to rid themselves of a hated new classmate. And a pair of outcasts a vampire and a goat woman find solace in each other even as the world's lack of understanding might bring about its own end. In these lush strange beautifully written stories Genna Rose Nethercott explores human longing in all its diamond - dark facets to create a collection that will redefine what you see as a beast and make you beg to have your heart broken.
Title: Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart And Other Stories
Author(s): Nethercott Gennarose
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780593314180
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 2/6/2024
Category: Fantasy