Homesick Stories
Homesick Stories by Nino Cipri, published by Dzanc Books in 2019, is a collection of speculative fiction that spans 197 pages. This edition presents a series of dark and innovative stories that explore the theme of home and the estrangement that can arise from it. The narratives shift the familiar into the uncanny, featuring queer relationships and transgender or nonbinary characters, and delve into unique scenarios such as a superhero team of murdered girls and a housecleaner who discovers an impossible ocean.
Readers will encounter a variety of imaginative tales that challenge conventional storytelling. The collection includes a man haunted by keys appearing in his throat and scientists uncovering the remains of an extinct species of intelligent weasels. Through these narratives, Cipri invites reflection on identity and belonging, making this work a significant contribution to contemporary fiction.
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Shirley Jackson Award finalist
World Fantasy Award finalist
Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories inHomesick 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 discoveringthe 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.
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