Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive
Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive
By Alison Gadsby
Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive blurs the lines between horror, catastrophic speculative fiction, and psychological realism in a collection that might best be described as weird fiction. These connected stories offer dark reconstructions of lives brimming with desperate loneliness. They allow us to bear witness to the life-altering love of sisters, brothers, mothers… the life-altering love that buoys them as they struggle to stay afloat in the wake of childhoods they merely survived.
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Guernica Editions (Essential Prose)
978-1-77849-015-6
214 pages |
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Reviews
Reviews
Gadsby’s vivid prose simmers with quiet rage at the ordinariness of violence, the casualness of cruelty, and the normalcy of misogyny. There is something electric running through these subtly linked stories - don’t be surprised when they leave you feeling lit up.Anuja Varghese, author of Chrysalis
Halfway into the first page of this collection, I thought "what the hell is this?". And then I couldn't put the book down. Alison Gadsby has a flair for writing the gritty, weird and topsy-turvy of life.
Farzana Doctor, author of Seven and The Beauty of Us
With razor sharp sentences and a deeply compassionate heart, Alison Gadsby's stories unfold to reveal beautiful and startling truths that stay with the reader long after the reading is done.
Carleigh Baker, author of Last Woman and Bad Endings
Searingly sharp, intricately constructed, and hugely original, BREATHING IS HOW SOME PEOPLE STAY ALIVE takes you down into the viscera of life while showing you just what the world is today. It’s an unforgettable read and an unforgettable experience.
Damian Tarnopolsky, author of Every Night I Dream I’m a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster
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About the author
Alison Gadsby writes in Tkaronto/Toronto where she lives in a multigenerational home that includes several dogs. Her writing has appeared in various literary journals, including Blank Spaces, The Temz Review, The Ex-Puritan, Blue Lake Review and more. She is the founder/host of Junction Reads, a prose reading series.