The Town of Whispering Dolls: Stories

The Town of Whispering Dolls: Stories image
ISBN-10:

1573661856

ISBN-13:

9781573661850

Author(s): Neville, Susan
Edition: First Edition
Released: Mar 03, 2020
Format: Paperback, 216 pages
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Description:

Winner of FC’s Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize

Stories haunted by the remains of the industrial Midwest, the opioid epidemic, and the technology of war

Located somewhere in the rust belt in the early twenty-first century, residents of the town of Whispering Dolls dream of a fabled and illusory past, even as new technologies reshape their world into something different and deeply strange. Dolls walk down the streets, cradling their empty heads and letting the wind turn them into flutes. A politician heads to Washington, DC, and leaves a toxic underground plume in his wake. A woman eats car parts instead of confronting the children who have forgotten her. A young woman falls in love with the robot who took her job at the candy factory.

In The Town of Whispering Dolls, it is usually the grandmothers and the children who grieve. Feeling invisible, in the story “Here,” a woman who has buried her children looks up at the sky where commercial and military jets fly overhead and tries to express her rage to the rich and powerful: “Keep flyingying above us in your planes. From one coast to the other, keep right on flying over us! We test your bombs and your beloved warriors. Here. Right here. Look down.”

























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