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ISBN-13:	9781590216330
Publisher:	Lethe Press
Publication date:	10/08/2016
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

"The Poet's Child" "Juliet & Juliet(te): A Romance of Alternate Worlds" "And If the Body Were Not the Soul" "The Pornographer's Assistant" "The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution" "For the Removal of Unwanted Guests" "A Mouse Ran Up the Clock" "Evidence of Things Unseen" "After Midnight - A Fairy Tale Noir" "Sisters of the Blessed Diving Order of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew" "The Kissing Booth Girl" "Final Girl Theory" "The Astronaut, Her Lover, the Queen of Faerie, and Their Child" "It's the End of the World as We Know It"

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★ 10/24/2016
Wise's inventive sense of weirdness and wonder comes to the forefront in this intense, graceful collection of stories in which plot plays second fiddle to quietly immersive world-building, longing and obsession are the forces of beauty, and grimness leads not to depressive dystopia but to desperately hopeful and brave, if still unsettling, solutions. Wise brings the reader's empathy to characters striving to find something profoundly real in the midst of artifice. "Juliet and Juliett(e): A Romance of Alternate Worlds" enters the realm of time travelers moving toward forever one moment at a time. Scuba-diving nuns appear in "Sisters of the Blessed Diving Order of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew," faery astronauts navigate the mundanities of parenting in "The Astronaut, Her Lover, the Queen of Faerie, and Their Child," steampunk circus performers confront a mystery they don't understand in the title story, and an elderly woman cherishes a fully functional robot in "The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution." The voices of the stories vary considerably, though the overall feeling is still cohesive, bound by Wise's ability to make the implausible profoundly relatable, in the way of the best speculative fiction. She lets the reader experience each story's "what if" in a way that speaks to the heart as well as the mind. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"Wise’s work brings literary together with genre, with the added bonus of well-writ gay, straight, bi, and asexual characters—The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories is achingly smart, sad, and weird in equal measure. A pleasure to inhabit, one distinct universe at a time." Sara Rauch for Lambda Literary
"Wise's inventive sense of weirdness and wonder comes to the forefront in this intense, graceful collection of stories in which plot plays second fiddle to quietly immersive world-building, longing and obsession are the forces of beauty, and grimness leads not to depressive dystopia but to desperately hopeful and brave, if still unsettling, solutions." - Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A.C. Wise pulls marvel after marvel out of her bag of tricks, and it still seems bottomless. Her stories are filled with wonder and magic. This is one kissing booth you’ll want to buy a whole roll of tickets for. " - Michael Thomas Ford, award-winning author of Lily, Suicide Notes, Jane Bites Back, What We Remember, and The Road Home

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