Author : Marguerite Sheffer
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609389956
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Book Synopsis The Man in the Banana Trees by : Marguerite Sheffer
Download or read book The Man in the Banana Trees written by Marguerite Sheffer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The stories in Marguerite Sheffer's debut collection, The Man in the Banana Trees, take place in the past, present, and future-from the American Gulf South to orbit around Jupiter. We meet teachers and students, ghosts and aliens. An ice cream consultant in the year 2036 predicts a devastating flavor trend and a disgruntled New England waiter investigates a mysterious tanker crash. Although wildly varied in setting, length, and genre, a thread of the fantastic unites these stories, as characters struggle to understand that thing lurking at the edge of their perception: something sinister, or maybe-miraculous. Sheffer dips into science fiction and fantasy to defamiliarize everyday horrors and confront them with heart and sly humor. Her stories explore complicity, whiteness, the lack of bodily autonomy women face, and what we are willing to destroy-or not-to dream a better world for our children"--