![]() ![]() A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk’s debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. ![]() ![]() Folk’s stories have been compared to Shirley Jackson’s, and this is most apparent in the way Folk balances her horror with humor.” - The New York Times Book ReviewĪ thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life, “ if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirror” (Chang-Rae Lee). True romantics will swoon either despite or because of the gore that accompanies these sharp, affable stories. “ Out There is for readers who consider body horror to be a love language. “Wonderfully weird and weirdly wonderful, Kate Folk is a dazzling talent.” -Karen Joy Fowler “Kate Folk’s stories inhabit otherworldly realms where exquisite language and beguiling characters excavate the very nature of love and existence.” -Adam Johnson Join us on Thursday, January 5 at 7pm PT when Kate Folk celebrates the paperback release of her debut story collection, Out There, at 9th Ave!įeaturing Tomas Moniz, Claire Stanford, and Maw Shein Win ![]()
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