Synopses & Reviews
May We Shed These Human Bodies peers through vast spaces and skies with the world's most powerful telescope to find humanity: wild and bright and hard as diamonds. Here is humanity building: families reconstruct themselves, mothers fashion babies from two-by-fours and nails, boys make a mother out of leaves and twigs and wishes. Here is humanity tearing down: a wife sets her house on fire in revenge, a young girl plots to kill the ghosts that stalk her, a dying man takes the whole human race with him. Here is humanity transforming: feral children, cannibalistic seniors, animal wivesa whole sideshow's worth of oddballs and freaks.
Review
"Sparkss debut story collection swirls with a Tim Burton-like whimsy
modern fables in which epiphanies replace moral lessons and tales unfold with Grimm-like wickedness.
Publishers Weekly
"Best Small Press Debut of 2012."
The Atlantic
"Sometimes all it takes is a few sentences to knock you off your rocker. Or at least thats the case in Sparkss debut collection, which packs 30 short short stories, each its own modern fable, into one handsome book.
Flavorwire
"There was Aesop, Thomas Bulfinch, Edith Hamilton, Angela Carterand now there is Amber Sparks with a new take on the fable. May We Shed These Human Bodies is a clever, scary, and charming debut collection full of great imagination."
Michael Kimball, author of Big Ray and Dear Everybody
Synopsis
May We Shed These Human Bodies peers through vast spaces and skies with the world's most powerful telescope to find humanity: wild and bright and hard as diamonds. A whole sideshow's worth of heartbreaking oddballs and freaks.
About the Author
Amber Sparks is the author of May We Shed These Human Bodies, released by Curbside Splendor in 2012. Her work has been widely published in print and online and you can find some of it at ambernoellesparks.com or follow her on Twitter @ambernoelle.
Amber Sparks on PowellsBooks.Blog
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