![]() ![]() ![]() Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky”-the title story of her debut collection-takes place on a dystopian Earth where the remaining inhabitants are toying with the laws of nature in an attempt to reverse the post-apocalyptic state. The alienation of the characters in Yukiko Motoya’s short story collection, The Lonesome Bodybuilder, sparks flights of imagination that reveal their inner selves. Short stories by Carmen Maria Machado use elements of fantasy to capture the mundane psychological horrors that many women face every day. Smith sketches the life of the book’s protagonist and her much older friend partly through mystical dream sequences juxtaposed against historical events. The novel Autumn by Ali Smith jumps back and forth between post-Brexit Britain and the World War II era. ![]() Maisy Card’s multigenerational debut novel, These Ghosts Are Family, uses the spirits of Caribbean folklore to weave together unreckoned colonial history with the fractured identities of present-day characters. Many authors are great at conceptualizing the illusory nature of reality in odd circumstances: They build fluid worlds that fuse time, place, and perception. No one in Yukiko Motoya’s new story collection, The Lonesome Bodybuilder, appears capable of seeing herself in the mirror. ![]() During quarantine, the social limits of home confinement can impose a surreal texture to simple everyday experiences. By Alana Mohamed for The Atlantic The unsettling stories in The Lonesome Bodybuilder are deeply preoccupied with the yawning disconnect between people. ![]()
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