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Fiction Contemporary Women

Erase and Rewind

by (author) Meghan Bell

Publisher
Book*hug Press
Initial publish date
May 2021
Category
Contemporary Women, Urban Life, Short Stories (single author)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771666787
    Publish Date
    May 2021
    List Price
    $20.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771666817
    Publish Date
    May 2021
    List Price
    $14.99
  • Audio

    ISBN
    9781771667586
    Publish Date
    Nov 2021
    List Price
    $29.99

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Description

An assault survivor realizes she can rewind time and relives the experience in order to erase it. A teen athlete wonders why she isn’t more afraid of death when the plane carrying her team catches fire. The daughter of a superhero ruminates on how her father neglected his children to pursue his heroics. Two shut-in depressives form a bond on Twitter while a deadly virus wipes out most of the population of North America.

The stories in Erase and Rewind probe the complexities of living as a woman in a skewed society. Told from the perspective of female protagonists, the pick at at rape culture, sexism in the workplace, uneven romantic and platonic relationships, and the impact of trauma under late-stage capitalism. Quirky, intelligent, and darkly comic, Meghan Bell's debut collection is a highwire balance of levity and gravity, finding the surreal in everyday life.

Praise for Erase and Rewind:

"A tough compelling new voice that tells us what it’s like to be young nowadays. Meghan Bell is a writer to watch." —Susan Swan, author of The Dead Celebrities Club

"Utterly bold, darkly funny, candid and bizarrely tender, Meghan Bell's debut is a testament to being young and female, lost, lonely, and neurotic, while simultaneously trying to navigate the perilous journey of everyday life. Erase and Rewind is a compulsive coming-of-age short story collection from a talented writer." —Lindsay Wong, author of The Woo-Woo

About the author

Meghan Bell is a writer and visual artist based in Vancouver. Her work has appeared in The Walrus, The Tyee, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Grain, Rattle, CV2, and The Minola Review, among others. She joined the editorial board of Room Magazine in 2011, and was the magazine's publisher from 2015-2019. During this time, she co-founded the Growing Room Literary Festival and acted as the lead editor and project manager of the magazine's fortieth anthology, Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine (Caitlin Press, 2017). Erase and Rewind is her debut story collection. You can find her online at meghanbell.com.

Meghan Bell's profile page

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