Helen Phillips
Author
Language
English
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Description
From LA Times Book Prize finalist and author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat comes a subversive speculative thriller about a mother of two young children who, by confronting a masked intruder in her home, slips into an existential rabbit hole where she grapples with the dualities of motherhood-- joy and dread, longing and suffocation-- in blazing, arresting prose.
"When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Becoming increasingly uneasy about suspicious activities at a new job she felt lucky to land, Josephine makes a terrible realization and is forced to confront dangerous and powerful elements in order to protect her loved ones.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
x, 213 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a spine-tingling new collection, the "unique"(NPR) and "wickedly funny" (New York Times) Helen Phillips offers an idiosyncratic series of "what-ifs" about our fragile human condition.Some Possible Solutions offers an idiosyncratic series of "What ifs": What if your perfect hermaphrodite match existed on another planet? What if you could suddenly see through everybody's skin to their organs? What if you knew the exact date of your death? What if...
