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Mammoth- maybe the most distinct of the bunch. A gay woman goes off grid and life gets very transactional. I have been most curious about reading more of her work, have a couple of them lined up.
www.andotherstories.org/mammoth/
www.andotherstories.org/mammoth/
Mammoth | And Other Stories
Mammoth’s protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She’s inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything […]
www.andotherstories.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Mammoth- maybe the most distinct of the bunch. A gay woman goes off grid and life gets very transactional. I have been most curious about reading more of her work, have a couple of them lined up.
www.andotherstories.org/mammoth/
www.andotherstories.org/mammoth/
Fire Exit- native american, deep and sad conveyance of the emptiness of the "tribe." The story metaphorically feels like it is going nowhere, like the tribes, and then...the ending is incredible, incredibly well done.
www.andotherstories.org/fire-exit/
www.andotherstories.org/fire-exit/
Fire Exit | And Other Stories
In this debut novel by Morgan Talty, winner of the 2022 NBCC John Leonard Award, hard questions of tribal membership play out in a story where bloodlines and belonging are at odds.
www.andotherstories.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Fire Exit- native american, deep and sad conveyance of the emptiness of the "tribe." The story metaphorically feels like it is going nowhere, like the tribes, and then...the ending is incredible, incredibly well done.
www.andotherstories.org/fire-exit/
www.andotherstories.org/fire-exit/
The Hunger of Women- intense in part because there is no punctuation, just a poetic flow, like ancient incantation. If being a cook was a species, this is a woman of that species, cooking, communing, reconciling, adventuring with other women. Wholly unique.
www.andotherstories.org/the-hunger-o...
www.andotherstories.org/the-hunger-o...
The Hunger of Women | And Other Stories
Leaping from recipe to recipe, this unique, poetic Italian novel charts a middle-aged woman’s belated embrace of the sensual – opening a restaurant and loving other women.
www.andotherstories.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The Hunger of Women- intense in part because there is no punctuation, just a poetic flow, like ancient incantation. If being a cook was a species, this is a woman of that species, cooking, communing, reconciling, adventuring with other women. Wholly unique.
www.andotherstories.org/the-hunger-o...
www.andotherstories.org/the-hunger-o...
This Part is Silent- this is what the second generation quiet Korean academic is observing. Brilliant, precise.
www.andotherstories.org/this-part-is...
www.andotherstories.org/this-part-is...
This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures | And Other Stories
Born in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, scholar, and daughter to confront the silences she finds in the...
www.andotherstories.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This Part is Silent- this is what the second generation quiet Korean academic is observing. Brilliant, precise.
www.andotherstories.org/this-part-is...
www.andotherstories.org/this-part-is...
Got a subscription to small UK publisher And Other Stories last year. Several books have been exceptional in a specific way- the "voice" of the writer, for lack of a better term, is so distinct and unique (to me) it is like making a cross cultural friend, through whose eyes I can see the world:
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Got a subscription to small UK publisher And Other Stories last year. Several books have been exceptional in a specific way- the "voice" of the writer, for lack of a better term, is so distinct and unique (to me) it is like making a cross cultural friend, through whose eyes I can see the world: