Violence and hope collide in Vincent Anioke’s eloquent and powerful debut collection
The irony in the volume stretches across stories, a number of which are linked.
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The irony in the volume stretches across stories, a number of which are linked.
The biggest disappointment in this book is its relative lack of creepiness.
The real, physical world is ever-present in these stories, most particularly in a recurring theme focusing on women's bodies.
The best stories in the book are less assiduous in cuing their reader as to how to react in any given moment.
Characters in Blaise's fiction are constantly on the move.
A number of these stories focus on military families. But the broader theme is the status of women and their struggle for independence and autonomy.
Blue Runaways is the first fiction publication from Stonehewer Books, a new independent press out of Victoria, B.C.
These are stories that are honest enough to meet their characters on their own terms.
The stories here are entertaining enough, provocative enough, and spicy enough that their ultimate provenance doesn't really make any difference.
The individual entries are linked by characters that drift in and out among them.