Fruiting Bodies: Stories
Kathryn Harlan
4.17 · 12 ratings · Published: 07 Jun 2022
In “The Changeling,” two young cousins wait in dread for a new family member to arrive, convinced that he may be a dangerous supernatural creature. In “Endangered Animals,” Jane prepares to say goodbye to her almost-love while they road-trip across a country irrevocably altered by climate change. In “Take Only What Belongs to You,” a queer woman struggles with the personal history of an author she idolized, while in “Fiddler, Fool, Pair,” an anthropologist is drawn into a magical—and dangerous—gamble. In the title story, partners Agnes and Geb feast peacefully on the mushrooms that sprout from Agnes’s body—until an unwanted male guest disturbs their cloistered home.
Audacious, striking, and wholly original, Fruiting Bodies offers stories about knowledge in a world on the verge of collapse, knowledge that alternately empowers or devastates. Pulling beautifully, brazenly, from a variety of literary traditions, Kathryn Harlan firmly establishes herself as a thrilling new voice in fiction.
- lgbtq+ 3
- horror 3
- fantasy 3
- women loving women 3
- literary fiction 2
- gothic 2
- magical realism 2
- dark 1
- romantic love 1
- contemporary 1
- low fantasy 1
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- anthology 3
- audiobook 2
- adult fiction 1