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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Soft Serve

by (author) Allison Graves

Publisher
Breakwater Books Ltd.
Initial publish date
Sep 2023
Category
Short Stories (single author), City Life, Contemporary Women
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550819861
    Publish Date
    Sep 2023
    List Price
    $22.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781550819878
    Publish Date
    Oct 2023
    List Price
    $20.99

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Description

Allison Graves’ edgy debut collection of short fiction scrutinizes unconventional and confused attachments between people and the reasons they last. The extraordinary becomes the ordinary as people navigate the weird, the quirky, and the sad aspects of everyday life.

Through encounters in retail and fast food chains, on highways and dating apps, the characters in this collection wander through the non-places of our modern lives. The stories connect readers to the spaces that ultimately make them feel lost—zones for reconsideration. Delving into the confusion and boredom of everyday life, Graves’ fiction documents the emotional experiences and disillusionment of middle-class millennials seeking a meaningful life in both the isolating and the ordinary.

About the author

Allison Graves received her BA in English literature from Dalhousie University and her MA in creative writing from Memorial University, where she wrote this collection of short stories. Her fiction has won Room magazine’s annual fiction contest and the Newfoundland Arts and Letters Award. She is the current fiction editor of Riddle Fence. She is doing a PhD at Memorial and likes to play drums and climb Signal Hill. Allison lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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