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SUMMARY:Mary Meijer
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to welcome Bookshop alumna Maryse Meijer back to the store to celebrate the release of her debut collection\, Heartbreaker. \nIn Heartbreaker\, Maryse peels back the crust of normalcy and convention\, unmasking the fury and violence we are willing to inflict in the name of love and loneliness. Her characters are a strange ensemble―a feral child\, a girl raised from the dead\, a possible pedophile―who share in vulnerability and heartache\, but maintain an unremitting will to survive. Meijer deals in desire and sex\, femininity and masculinity\, family and girlhood\, crafting a landscape of appetites threatening to self-destruct. In beautifully restrained and exacting prose\, she sets the marginalized free to roam her pages and burn our assumptions to the ground. \n“The edgy stories in Meijer’s debut collection cut like so many wild teeth: sharp\, deep\, and unforgiving . . . Meijer breaks open taboos about sex\, disability\, melancholy\, and violence with the careful precision of a teenager egging the house of her mortal enemy. Here is all the raw anger\, fear\, malice\, lust\, and confusion of women used to threats\, stalking\, and ceaseless observation\, who live with their lives hanging every day in the balance. In fiction\, Meijer seems to say\, they have a shot at making their own rules—and the results are strange\, unsettling\, and addictive . . . In deft\, clear prose\, Meijer takes everyday moments of loss and loneliness and threads them through with elements of the gothic\, fantasy\, and fairy tale . . . Taut and ruthless\, Meijer’s tales somehow manage to be both believable in their strangeness and recognizable in their pointed cruelties. Here are the misfits\, the overweight\, and the lonely. The obsessives and the broken. Here are the monsters—and they look an awful lot like you. A dark and surprising new voice in short fiction.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n[Meijer] reaches into the darkest parts of the human psyche where sexuality\, vulnerability\, and violence commingle and simmer . . . Beneath these incendiary premises\, the characters’ relationships engender genuine empathy; Meijer is extraordinarily adept at tapping into a well of existential loneliness brought on by civilization’s tendency and shame.” —Publishers Weekly
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LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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