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Glorious frazzled beings / Angélique Lalonde.

Summary:

Home is where we love, suffer, and learn. Some homes we chose, others are inflicted upon us, and still others are bodies we are born into. In this astounding collection of stories, human and more-than-human worlds come together in places we call home. Four sisters and their mother explore their fears while teeny ghost people dress up in fragments of their children's clothes. A somewhat-ghost tends the family garden. Deep in the mountains, a shapeshifting mother must sift through her ancestors' gifts and the complexities of love when one boy is born with a beautiful set of fox ears and another is not. In the wake of her elderly mother's tragic death, a daughter tries to make sense of the online dating profile she left behind. And a man named Pooka finds new ways to weave new stories into his abode, in spite of his inherited suffering.

Record details

ISBN: 9781487009571 (pbk.)
Physical Description: 292 pages ; 18 cm
Publisher: [Toronto] : Astoria, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Part one: Homemaking. Lady with the big head chronicle -- The town Carmen found -- Malarkey -- Family sketches -- Mom's online dating profile -- Home (in four parts) -- Part two: Housekeeping. The leopard in the bathroom -- Reflections for Rita-Mae on her fortieth birthday -- A home for secrets -- Understanding groceries -- My five-week course in Ikebana -- At the dentist -- On alleviating oneself of guilt -- Part three: Home breaking. Puff -- The pregnancy test -- Erosion -- Merry Christmas -- Ropes of entropy -- Her unspoken name -- Part four: Homing. The teeny ghost people and their garments -- Pooka.