Her Body Among Animals

Paola Ferrante

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Book*hug
18 January 2024

Myth & legend told as fiction; Short stories

Shortlisted for the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Nominated for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

In this genre-bending debut collection merging horror, fairy tales, pop culture, and sci-fi, women challenge the boundaries placed on their bodies while living in a world ""among animals,"" where violence is intertwined with bizarre ecological disruptions.

A sentient sex robot goes against her programming; a grad student living with depression is weighed down by an ever-present albatross; an unhappy wife turns into a spider; a boy with a dark secret is haunted by dolls; a couple bound for a colony on Mars take a road trip through Texas; a girl fights to save her sister from growing a mermaid tail like their absent mother.

Magical yet human, haunted and haunting, these stories act as a surreal documentation of the mistakes in systems of the past that remain very much in the present. Ferrante investigates toxic masculinity and the devastation it enacts upon women and our planet, delving into the universal undercurrent of ecological anxiety in the face of such toxicity, and the personal experience of being a new mother concerned about the future her child will face.

Through these confrontations of the complexity of living in a woman's body, Her Body Among Animals moves us from hopelessness to a future of resilience and possibility.

By: Paola Ferrante
Imprint: Book*hug
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 353g
ISBN: 9781771668385
ISBN 10: 1771668385
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 18 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Table of Contents 1. When Foxes Die Electric2. The Underside of a Wing3. Mermaid Girls4. Finding Houdini5. A Trick of the Dark6. Everyday Horror Show 7. Pandora8. Cobwebs9. The Silent Grave of Birds10. So What If It’ s Supposed to Rain11. Among Chameleons and Other Shades

PAOLA FERRANTE is a writer living with depression. Her debut poetry collection, What to Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She has won Grain Magazine's Short Grain Contest for Poetry, The New Quarterly's Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award, Room Magazine's Fiction Contest, and was longlisted for the 2020 Journey Prize. Her work appears in After Realism: 24 Stories for the 21st Century, Best Canadian Poetry 2021, North American Review, PRISM International, and elsewhere. She was born, and still resides in, Toronto.

Reviews for Her Body Among Animals

"Her Body Among Animals is a finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Books of the Year Awards in the Adult Fiction: Short Stories category. Her Body Among Animals is the Silver Winner for Short Stories from the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Her Body Among Animals is a nominee for the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards in the Single-Author Collection category ""Precise yet poetic, sharply observed yet compassionate and tender, these cautionary tales for future generations burst the bounds of genre and take us into new and exciting literary realms."" --David Demchuck, a Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated author of The Bone Mother and RED X. Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante is shortlisted for the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. ""There is no filler here; each story is devastating, brilliantly imaginative, and almost impossible to summarize neatly. Ferrante is a vital new voice in short fiction."" --Publishers Weekly ""Paola Ferrante's monster-haunted stories are as dark as a moonless lake--and as beautiful."" --Andr� Forget, Amazon Canada First Novel Award-nominated author of In the City of Pigs. ""Paola Ferrante's writing is so daring, so sharp and visceral, and yet so effortless. Gorgeous, wry, and unsettling, Her Body Among Animals pulls the reader in and doesn't let go until the final page."" --Amy Jones, author of Every Little Piece of Me. ""The vibrant stories in Paola Ferrante's collection Her Body Among Animals transport the reader to strange, yet achingly familiar territory. Ferrante holds up a funhouse mirror to our contemporary moment with her sharp and dazzling prose . . . These wondrous narratives showcase the infinite scope of the universe and the ways in which we struggle to survive."" --Doretta Lau, author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?."