Hardly Children: Stories

A Boston Globe Fall Pick and a Library Journal Top Short Fiction for Fall selection An eerie debut collection featuring missing parents, unrequited love, and other uncomfortable moments A man hangs from the ceiling of an art gallery. A woman spells out messages to her sister using her own hair. Children deemed ôbadö are stolen from their homes. In Hardly Children, Laura AdamczykÆs rich and eccentric debut collection, familiar worldsùbars, hotel rooms, cities that could very well be our ownùhum with uncanny dread. The characters in Hardly Children are keyed up, on the verge, full of desire. TheyÆre lost, theyÆre in love with someone they shouldnÆt be, theyÆre denying uncomfortable truths using sex or humor. They are children waking up to the threats of adulthood, and adults living with childlike abandon. With command, caution, and subtle terror, Adamczyk shapes a world where death and the possibility of loss always emerge. Yet the shape of this loss is never fully revealed. Instead, it looms in the periphery of these stories, like an uncomfortable scene viewed out of the corner of oneÆs eye.

• | Author: Laura Adamczyk
• | Publisher: Fsg Originals
• | Publication Date: Nov 20, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0374167893
• | ISBN-13: 9780374167899