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Three by Tuite: Her Skin is a Costume; Domestic Apparitions; Bound by Blue
Cowboy Jamboree Press is proud to present, now back in print, 3 outstanding works from Meg the chapbook Her Skin is a Costume , the novel Domestic Apparitions , and the short story collection Bound by Blue .
Praise for Domestic Apparitions
“Any novel that wants to portray the truth of our short time on this planet has to be about failure and tragedy first and foremost, even if interlaced with moments of grace, hilarity and beauty. This Tuite does handily.”
—The Nervous Breakdown
“Meg Tuite gives us a wonderful tableau of familiar just as if all of it were about our friends, family, colleagues, neighbours, about people we know or knew quite well, even about ourselves…”
— Specter
“A poignant ride through different phases of the protagonist’s life, Do- mestic Apparition is funny, sarcastic, dark, reflective, and touching.”
—New Pages
“Meg Tuite is like Sissy Spacek in the movie Carrie when they dump pig blood on her, but instead of setting the prom on fire, she ignites your brain using dark and mysterious word torches.”
—Brian Ellis
Praise for Bound by Blue
“It’s hard not to feel the range of human emotion when you read Bound by Blue . Meg Tuite’s stories are beautifully painful and painfully beautiful. These characters will stick with you so long, you’ll remember them as people you actually knew.”
—Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Wonder Bread Summer
“Meg Tuite’s quirky worlds force a funhouse mirror in front of the freak show of life. There’s poison buried deep in the candy that’s Bound By Blue , but you will be a better person, once you’ve let it kill you softly—the ache, the beauty and the pain molding you into a more perfect being.”
—Brian Allen Carr, author of Vampire Conditions
“Meg Tuite writes these stories like secret storms. You won’t notice until after how wrecked the lawn of your brain has become, as these stories sneak up and roll over you in the best way. Tuite’s characters are the bravest frightened animals, caught out in a bright light—their beautiful, terrible choices exposed and devastating.”
—Amber Sparks, author of May We Shed These Human Bodies
“Deep empathy rises inside you as you read Meg Tuite’s brilliant story collection, Bound By Blue. From the first page, the characters, their flaws, their movements are so alive you feel as if you know them – and you do – because they are a part of you. Stunning, thought-provoking, gripping, these exquisite stories mix haunting memories with humor and grit. They will leave you with a stronger sense of our shared humanity. A masterful story collection.”
—Deborah Henry, author of The Whipping Club
Praise for Domestic Apparitions
“Any novel that wants to portray the truth of our short time on this planet has to be about failure and tragedy first and foremost, even if interlaced with moments of grace, hilarity and beauty. This Tuite does handily.”
—The Nervous Breakdown
“Meg Tuite gives us a wonderful tableau of familiar just as if all of it were about our friends, family, colleagues, neighbours, about people we know or knew quite well, even about ourselves…”
— Specter
“A poignant ride through different phases of the protagonist’s life, Do- mestic Apparition is funny, sarcastic, dark, reflective, and touching.”
—New Pages
“Meg Tuite is like Sissy Spacek in the movie Carrie when they dump pig blood on her, but instead of setting the prom on fire, she ignites your brain using dark and mysterious word torches.”
—Brian Ellis
Praise for Bound by Blue
“It’s hard not to feel the range of human emotion when you read Bound by Blue . Meg Tuite’s stories are beautifully painful and painfully beautiful. These characters will stick with you so long, you’ll remember them as people you actually knew.”
—Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Wonder Bread Summer
“Meg Tuite’s quirky worlds force a funhouse mirror in front of the freak show of life. There’s poison buried deep in the candy that’s Bound By Blue , but you will be a better person, once you’ve let it kill you softly—the ache, the beauty and the pain molding you into a more perfect being.”
—Brian Allen Carr, author of Vampire Conditions
“Meg Tuite writes these stories like secret storms. You won’t notice until after how wrecked the lawn of your brain has become, as these stories sneak up and roll over you in the best way. Tuite’s characters are the bravest frightened animals, caught out in a bright light—their beautiful, terrible choices exposed and devastating.”
—Amber Sparks, author of May We Shed These Human Bodies
“Deep empathy rises inside you as you read Meg Tuite’s brilliant story collection, Bound By Blue. From the first page, the characters, their flaws, their movements are so alive you feel as if you know them – and you do – because they are a part of you. Stunning, thought-provoking, gripping, these exquisite stories mix haunting memories with humor and grit. They will leave you with a stronger sense of our shared humanity. A masterful story collection.”
—Deborah Henry, author of The Whipping Club
- GenresFiction
300 pages, Paperback
First published February 11, 2023
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January 9, 2024
This three-in-one collection is positively gripping and awe-inspiring. I began reading and was only a few pages in when I knew I wanted to read Tuite entirely undistracted. I put the book down for a month and waited to savor it while on vacation. It's that kind of book. What one first notices is that Tuite is a master of the sentence--each is so precisely wrought that I was left stunned by what was so entirely said. And Tuite doesn't give you what is pretty. There is danger: it's a fast-moving car yielding to no one. But what Tuite writes is so vividly true that characters and scenes will be familiar to many. This prose will knock you out flat and pull you back up wanting more.
March 21, 2023
Some quotes:
"We are such opaque children. We are subterfuge."
"Mom slips a pen and notebook into my pocket and goes back to confiscating the wail of wind in stranger's depressed faces, demolished buildings, the bruised colors of my interior with her own silent hell, humming a soft, velvet tune that I want to crawl inside larger than my bulging pocket filled with sparkly trinkets I will hand out to friends at school the next day."
"Some of the blindest, old women I know have knitted the rattiest snarls of yarn into masterful canvases of scarves and sweaters, so why shouldn't I be capable of bleeding together a few fragmented stories out of the massive downpour of discarded babble that never ceases."
"How was she murdered? Like memory. A car crash would have proven no more sudden than her prolonged illness, where the deathbed was just another vehicle that bore the domestic appearance of the everyday."
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"We are such opaque children. We are subterfuge."
"Mom slips a pen and notebook into my pocket and goes back to confiscating the wail of wind in stranger's depressed faces, demolished buildings, the bruised colors of my interior with her own silent hell, humming a soft, velvet tune that I want to crawl inside larger than my bulging pocket filled with sparkly trinkets I will hand out to friends at school the next day."
"Some of the blindest, old women I know have knitted the rattiest snarls of yarn into masterful canvases of scarves and sweaters, so why shouldn't I be capable of bleeding together a few fragmented stories out of the massive downpour of discarded babble that never ceases."
"How was she murdered? Like memory. A car crash would have proven no more sudden than her prolonged illness, where the deathbed was just another vehicle that bore the domestic appearance of the everyday."
AND SO SO MUCH MORE! GET A COPY! JUMP IN ON THE CHANCE TO WIN A FREE COPY!
April 17, 2023
Meg Tuite's stories crawl inside you and lodge themselves under your skin. Disturbing, wonderful, witty, Tuite hits on the most difficult parts of being a child, of being a girl, and of being a human. The work in this collection illuminates the ways trauma manifests itself and how we can attempt to heal, the devastating nature of family and the power of the self to survive. Tuite takes the darkest subject matter and presents it with characteristic sarcastic humor and language that takes readers on a wild, scary, crazy, but ultimately revelatory ride. Fantastic!
April 7, 2023
Meg Tuite is a literary force. You will feel something when you read her stories. Tuite amazes me with her ability to cut and expose her characters with the words she puts on the page, holding nothing back. This collection contains flashes of brilliance, moments of perfection, and some of our deepest fears, described in searing and mesmerizing prose. Unforgettable.
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