And
I Do Not Forgive You
by Amber Sparks
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Populated
with such heroes as time-traveling queens and video-game designing goddesses,
and such specters as clingy ghosts and mediocre men, And I Do Not Forgive You
is tethered intricately by shades of rage.
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
fairytales—which are, as Sparks writes, just a warning disguised as a wish.
In “Mildly Happy, With Moments
of Joy,” a friend is ghosted by a simple text message; in “Everyone’s a Winner
at Meadow Park,” 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 “history
likes to lie about women”? as the subjects of “You Won’t Believe What Really
Happened to the Sabine Women” (it’s true, you won’t) will attest. Sparks
employs her vast knowledge of the morbid and macabre in “The Eyes of Saint
Lucy,” in which a young girl creates elaborately violent dioramas of famous
saints with her mother. And in “A Short and Speculative History of Lavoisier’s
Wife,” the great efforts of French chemist Lavoisier’s 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.
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File Size :
2284 KB
Print Length : 192 pages
Publisher :
Liveright (February 11, 2020)
Publication Date : February 11,
2020
Sold by : Amazon.com Services
LLC
Language : English
ASIN : B07TL2846N
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