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Join Moon Palace Books and author John Elizabeth Stintzi for a reading from Bad Houses on Sunday, November 10th at 3:00pm. They will be joined in conversation by Katherine Packert Burke.**This is an in-person event. Masks are required in store.**
In the surreal, often precarious realities of Bad Houses, a doctor discovers a double-edged cure for the Ebola virus, a college student loses a different body part each time they return home for the summer, Midas's hairdresser strives to keep his secrets, and a young girl develops a fascination with the trolls who harvest her father's pumpkin patch. At once humourous and horrifying, these stories will inevitably take residence in your mind.
Present throughout Bad Houses is a deep and abiding sense of humanity sprinkled with a dash of alienation, guilt, and instability. Filtered through a fabulist lens, these stories contemplate the struggles of modern existence. Each character lives their own haunted life, trying to navigate the path from bad houses to good homes.
Featuring Stintzi's own expressive ink illustrations, Bad Houses is a book that feels like it was penned by a trans Alice Munro mixed with a bubblier Franz Kafka. Enter if you dare.
John Elizabeth Stintzi is the author of the novels My Volcano and Vanishing Monuments (finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award) and the poetry collection Junebat. They are the recipient of the 2019 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award and the Sator New Works Award, and their writing has appeared in Ploughshares, The Malahat Review, Kenyon Review, and others.
Katherine Packert Burke is a graduate of the Clarion Writer's Workshop in San Diego and the MFA program at the University of Alabama. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55406
