Results for "Parkison, Aimee"

Winner of the Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize, Parkison mixes literary fiction with gritty realities in her second story collection.... Read More about The Innocent Party

The debut novel by an award-winning author of short stories. Kidnapped girls trapped in a remote theater surrounded by mountains and jungle are forced into illegal performances, displayed in cabinets with curiosities, delicate limbs bound by straps, accompanied by dancing puppets fashioned of dead ... Read More about The Petals of Your Eyes

A disturbingly brilliant collection of experimental fiction exploring love, loss, and mourning. The twelve stories comprising SUBURBAN DEATH PROJECT sparkle with disturbing brilliance, revealing in full why Aimee Parkison is so widely celebrated for her innovative narratives and experimental fiction... Read More about Suburban Death Project

Sister S ance is set in Concord, Massachusetts, just after the Civil War. Spiritualism is sweeping the nation when a Halloween celebration calls for a traditional "dumb supper," a dinner party where no guest may speak but must convey needs and desires through nonverbal communication. After the dumb ... Read More about Sister Séance

In Disappearing Debutantes, disappearing and ever present "female beginners" come-of-age in fantasy and reality. As children, girls, teens, "new adults," middle-aged women, and old women, they keep having their debuts and going unnoticed. Erased by gender, time, age, and those they most want to see ... Read More about Disappearing Debutantes