Fen: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781555977740)

A singular debut that "marks the emergence of a great, stomping, wall-knocking talent" (Kevin Barry)

Daisy Johnson's Fen, set in the fenlands of England, transmutes the flat, uncanny landscape into a rich, brooding atmosphere. From that territory grow stories that blend folklore and restless invention to turn out something entirely new. Amid the marshy paths of the fens, a teenager might starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl and grow jealous of her friend. A boy might return from the dead in the guise of a fox. Out beyond the confines of realism, the familiar instincts of sex and hunger blend with the shifting, unpredictable wild as the line between human and animal is effaced by myth and metamorphosis. With a fresh and utterly contemporary voice, Johnson lays bare these stories of women testing the limits of their power to create a startling work of fiction.

Author: Daisy Johnson
ISBN-10: 155597774X
ISBN-13: 9781555977740
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2017
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/13/2017
Shelf Awareness 05/30/2017