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Periphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions - by Garrett Ashley (Paperback)
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- Garrett Ashley's debut short story collection, Periphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions introduces a cast of characters both strange and strangely familiar: a father struggling to reconcile modern co-parenting with his past life as a yak, a brother and sister fighting to survive in an alligator-infested swamp, residents of a seaside town where the cadence of life and loss follows the heartbeat of the mythical Leviathan.
- Author(s): Garrett Ashley
- 172 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Short Stories (single author)
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"Garrett Ashley's debut short story collection, Periphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions, introduces a cast of characters both strange and strangely familiar: a father struggling to reconcile modern co-parenting with his past life as a yak, a brother and sister fighting to survive in an alligator-infested swamp, residents of a seaside town where the cadence of life and loss follows the heartbeat of the mythical Leviathan. Readers will find stories of reincarnation, zombification, and genetic modification-but most of all, a piercing self-awareness that invites us to laugh at the absurd while also reminding us, in all seriousness, that what some may call "fantasy" often tells the truest story"--Book Synopsis
Garrett Ashley's debut short story collection, Periphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions introduces a cast of characters both strange and strangely familiar: a father struggling to reconcile modern co-parenting with his past life as a yak, a brother and sister fighting to survive in an alligator-infested swamp, residents of a seaside town where the cadence of life and loss follows the heartbeat of the mythical Leviathan. Readers will find stories of reincarnation, zombification, and genetic modification-but most of all, a piercing self-awareness that invites us to laugh at the absurd while also reminding us, in all seriousness, that what some may call "fantasy" often tells the truest story.
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Garrett Ashley has created a panorama of tales with Periphylla and Other Deep Ocean Attractions. This is a striking collection that shifts between worlds, from the creatures that inhabit the land and sea, to the two-legged humans who walk around troubled and confused, fighting to make sense of it all. These stories are a reminder that there is much beauty, and pain, in all creation. -Michael Farris Smith, author of Salvage This World and Desperation Road
A fever-hot exhalation of wonder. In these stories, aquariums hold leviathans, amoeba people burst through fake human skins, bruises ache from past lives, and the dead return as pigs. Heady, blistering, and tender as a wound. -Micah Dean Hicks, author of Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones