Homebodies

By (author): Amy LeBlanc

“Homebodies will leave readers entertained and enlightened – and maybe a little terrified.” – Literary Review of Canada
“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 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.

AUTHOR

Amy LeBlanc

Amy LeBlanc holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Calgary where she is currently completing an MA in English Literature and creative writing. She is non-fiction editor at filling station magazine and was Editor-in-Chief of N?D Magazine for two years. Her debut novella Unlocking will be published in the UCalgary Press’ Brave and Brilliant Series in 2022. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Room, Prairie Fire, Contemporary Verse 2, LRC, and EVENT among others. Amy won the 2018 BrainStorm Poetry Contest for her, poem ‘Swell’. Her piece “Redress” was long-listed for Room Magazine‘s 2018 short forms contest. She is the author of two chapbooks, most recently Ladybird, Ladybird published with Anstruther Press.


Reviews

“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

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Dimensions:

168 Pages
8.46in * 7.74in * .52in
240gr

Published:

May 02, 2023

ISBN:

9781773371016

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Short Stories

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Language:

eng

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