ARGONAUT BOOKS

The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories. A family is haunted by a beast that splatters fruit against its walls every night, another undergoes a near-collision with a bus on the way home from the beach. Mothers are cold, fathers are absent - we know these moments in the abstract, but Adaui makes each as uncanny as our own lives: close but not yet understood. Reviews "haunting….Adaui's poetic prose elevates the poignancy of these mostly somber stories" -Publishers We...Read More