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Alison Gadsby
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Born
Canada
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January 2020
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Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive
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2026
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2 editions
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"This loosely connected series of short stories often gave me the heebie-jeebies, but always kept me interested. The author blended horror, science fiction and more than a bit of family drama together to create this compelling collection.
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"A collection of dark stories, loosely connected. I particularly liked the stories involving humanoid robots. I felt that many of the stories ended a bit abruptly, but maybe I just wanted them to continue on a bit longer. Interesting and thought provo"
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"This is a collection of excellent stories and an excellent collection as well.
The stories themselves are a poignant look at how modernity leaves us isolated, lonely, and often struggling to find meaning in our lives. Largely centres on familial rela" Read more of this review » |
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"A solid collection of short stories mostly dealing with child abuse and a running undercurrent of swimming.
A lot of the later short stories become linked to the earlier ones and (maybe an unpopular opinion) but I disliked this and wished they had bee" Read more of this review » |
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| Death is a dark cloud above the stories in Leila Marshy’s collection, MY THIEVERY OF THE PEOPLE. Appearing as a woman in a red coat; in the glint of a sword under circus lights; at a honey farm; in the rivers that run alongside stolen land; in the At ...more | |
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There is so much of this book that cannot be spoken about because the author withholds in a symphony that builds so beautifully toward an unveiling of truth and memory, of the truth that lands as softly as if we'd known it all along. We follow Rufous ...more |
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How does a man live burdened by all the secrets that follow him “like a dark shadow, always there, a black menacing shape”? Larkin Ryan Beattie is a kid when he realizes that there’s something about his insides that don’t match his outsides, there’s s ...more |
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| An emotional sorrow-filled story of grief, love, religion, sisterhood, interfaith marriage, acquired body difference and family, with philosophical smatterings of colonization, atheism and climate change (“There's a fifty percent chance that we're al ...more | |