Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids: Stories

Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids: Stories - Paperback

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Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids: Stories

Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids: Stories - Paperback

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by Leyna Krow (Author)

"These gripping, magical tales span time travel, portals, menacing butterflies, and more. A can't-miss meditation on families and survival."
--People

"A gorgeous book that also serves as a series of unanswerable, probing questions: How did we get here? How will we move forward? Can we still love, despite the wreckage? This is devastating work, and I mean that as a compliment. Very rarely have I come across a set of stories so genuinely moving. A searing collection that attempts to place the world delicately in our fumbling, undeserving hands." --Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025: Lit Hub, The Millions

What do we owe our family and friends in times of wild uncertainty?

That's the question the women of Leyna Krow's beguiling, darkly fabulist story collection grapple with as they strive to be good mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmothers, wives, and companions in a world that is constantly shifting around them. Set in the Pacific Northwest, these stories blend high concept magic with the sometimes subtle, other times glaring, realities of climate change.

As protagonists contend with doppelg?nger babies, hordes of time travelers, mysterious portals, and supernatural siblings, there lurks in the background the effects of the region's rapidly shifting environment. There are wildfires, wind storms, unrelenting heat, disrupted butterfly migration patterns, a new plague, and a catastrophe on the slopes of Mount Rainier that reverberates through three generations of a single family over the course of a half dozen linked stories.

With Krow's signature blend of sardonic whimsy and unsettling insight, Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids imagines the rules to be broken, choices to be made, and even crimes to be had for the sake of the people, and places, we love.

Author Biography

Leyna Krow is the author of the novel Fire Season, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the short story collection I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking, which was a Believer Book Award finalist. She lives in Spokane, Washington, with her husband and two children.

Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: January 28, 2025

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