All the Wrong Places
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Published by: Lost Horse Press
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Pages: 160
ISBN13: 978-0990819325
Overview
Winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction
Molly Giles's nineteen strange, tightly woven tales merge the mythic and the modern with dark humor and deep humanity. Many of the stories contain contemporary versions of ancient guides: a ghost dog seen by a young drifter in love with a much older guru; a wild goat on a cliff forever standing beside her dead ram glimpsed by a woman whose husband battles cancer; a volcano goddess with a small dog appearing to a woman whose boyfriend is flirting with her teenage daughter. The vacationland settings, Hawaii, Ireland, Baja and California among them, accentuate the characters' sense of displacement.
Praise
“These stories are electric. Wickedly funny, they unfold at a breakneck pace, whisking the reader through surprise, delight, delicious alarm. Molly Giles can do in three pages what other writers do in 300. These are characters, and stories, with sharp edges, soft underbellies, and a glint in their eye.”
– Caitlin Horrocks
“Giles’ book is the perfect place for any connoisseur of stories to be.”
– Pamela Painter