Full Description
Longlisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Award
and the 2014 Giller Prize
“Moody, shape-shifting, provocative and always as compelling as a strong light at the end of a road you hesitate to walk down...but will."—Amy Bloom
"Tight, strange, nifty stories."—Margaret Atwood
The rubble of an ancient civilization. A village in a valley from which no one comes or goes. A forest of mother-trees, whispering to each other through their roots; a lakeside lighthouse where a girl slips into human skin as lightly as an otter into water; a desert settlement where there was no conflict, before she came; or the town of Wantwick, ruled by a soothsayer, where tourists lose everything they have. These are the places where things begin.
New from the author of The Story of My Face, Paradise & Elsewhere is a collection of dark fables at once familiar and entirely strange: join the Orange Prize-nominated Kathy Page as she notches a new path through the wild, lush, half-fantastic and half-real terrain of fairy tale and myth.
Praise for Paradise & Elsewhere
“This vibrant, startlingly imaginative collection reminded me—as few collections have done in recent years—of both where stories come from, and why we need to tell them. Kathy Page is a massive talent: wise, smart, very funny and very humane."—Barbara Gowdy
Contents
G'Ming
Lak-ha
Of Paradise
The Ancient Siddannese
Big Man
My Beautiful Wife
Clients
Lambing
Woodsmoke
I like to Look
Saving Grace
Yesterday's Astounding Events
The Kissing Disease
My Fees
