Homebodies by Amy LeBlanc

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9781773371016
Published:
02 May 2023
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
168 pages
Dimensions:
215x145x14mm
Weight:
0.246kgs
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What does it mean to be at home? Are we ever truly alone in our houses? In 'Twisted,' a woman loses her best friend's daughter while an old acquaintance is on trial for murder; 'Nectar and Nickle' introduces readers to a young girl whodigs up the corpse of the family cat and comforts herself with macabre fairy tales. In 'Garden Bed,' secrets are buried in the garden plot with the best of intentions, but they are dug up by a fox who watches and sees everything. Haunted bodies, haunted houses, and haunted relationships colour this collection to show us that our homes are not our own. We are only guests.

"Homebodies will leave readers entertained and enlightened-and maybe a little terrified." - Literary Review of Canada

"Unsettling and creepy." - CBC Weekend Morning Show

"LeBlanc surprises and disturbs, to the reader's intense anguish - in this collection's case, a good thing." - Winnipeg Free Press

"Original, inherently fascinating, and with a narrative storytelling style that is ideal for Gothic fiction and the short story format… a highly recommended pick." - Midwest Book Review

"Homebodies is about the living who are isolated, the deceased who infiltrate our quotidian realms, and all those lacunas that quiver between - uncanny and sometimes welcome spectres of love." - Alberta Views

Homebodies is an uncanny and ghostly debut with stories that provoke dread, abjection, and horror. The tales are intertwined and linked like a chain of dried daisies or butterfly legs: someone you used to know is on trial for murder. You work at a funeral home. Your dead grandmother calls you on the phone. You pin and preserve butterflies on a corkboard as a strange girl knocks on your door. You put a bike lock on the fridge. You sleepwalk. You attend a party. You get sick. You get an IV infusion. You don't get better.The stories in Homebodies show that you don't need a house to be haunted - the body can do that all on its own.

About the Author: Amy Leblanc is a Ph.D. student in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary. She is the author of the poetry collection, I know something you don't know and the novella, Unlocking. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Room, Arc, CV2, Canadian Literature, and the Literary Review of Canada among others. Homebodies is Amy's first short story collection.

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