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“Horror movies really, really distracted me from the most painful time of my life. Alone in the theatre for a couple of hours, being manipulated into screaming, swearing, and tossing my popcorn, I was transported.”
“If you just look at your own nightmares, you know that there are no rules.”
“A lot of it reminds me of just how much I have come through. And how much the people I know have come through. And what it was like to lose people.”
“The very things that nurture you in the horror genre are also the things that can suppress an understanding of what you’re trying to do.”
“I think I see life in very, very noir terms,” says the author, who considered quitting after finishing work on her latest novel.
“I didn’t have much of a relationship with masculinity growing up,” MacIntyre says. “I grew up among women.”
The brief novel’s propulsion and effect result from its author’s key understanding of just how far to push her technique to achieve maximum effect.
Though Bhat’s new book is described as her second novel, the individual pieces comprise all the attributes of linked stories.
The Toronto author’s story provides a metaphorical response to a very real history of trauma and violence.
Awad’s latest novel uses allusions to the Bard to tell the story of a woman whose chronic pain is miraculously alleviated.