Zoe Ballering
There Is Only Us: Volume 21
There Is Only Us: Volume 21
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The eight stories of speculative fiction in There Is Only Us explore themes of loneliness, connectedness, and selfhood. Each one is an act of intimacy--an altered world shown through the lens of a close relationship. Brothers, sisters, lovers, mothers, and daughters come together in myriad constellations, often so that one character can make a body-altering choice of extreme proportions. In a variety of forms--from a satirical retelling of Noah's Ark to a sister drama revolving around naked mole rats--There Is Only Us presents a series of escalating scenarios, intimate and yet absurd, that ask, how much can you change and still be you?
Ballering's stories bring to speculative fiction a new lightness and absurdity and a commitment to contemporary experiences of loneliness, especially among Millennials: loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic, ecological loneliness (the sense that, by the end of our lives, the earth will be barren), and the unsolvable loneliness that so many experience despite carrying around a tiny device that claims it can connect them to any human anywhere on earth.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Ballering, Zoe
Published: 11/01/2022
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 9781574418804
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.56w x 0.45d
