In small towns and villages, strange things arrive and ask to be understood. Bette A. writes quiet fables of parallel worlds in which ordinary people have to decide how to respond.
Readical Key Points
A collection of short fables and stories, including "The Endless House" and "The Other Village"
The publisher says the collection inspired a vinyl collaboration with Brian Eno
By Bette A., who has also published as Bette Adriaanse
Hardcover from Unnamed Press, 150 pages
One story adds room after impossible room to a poor family's house when a daughter is born. Another leaves a silent box at the edge of a town, and another turns from a war memorial to the lone man who would not take up arms. Elsewhere there are monsters made of smoke, secrets kept since childhood and a community of voices with no bodies. The pieces turn on how people respond together to what they cannot explain.
It is for readers of fabulist and magical-realist short fiction; the publisher names Calvino as a point of comparison. Each story sets a strange object down in an ordinary town and leaves the reader to walk around it.
About the Author
Bette A. works in Dutch and English as an author, artist and activist, and has also published as Bette Adriaanse. With Brian Eno she co-wrote What Art Does, and her novels include Rus, Like Everyone Else and What's Mine.
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