Jac Jemc
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A thief steals the air from a room. Children invent a nursery rhyme to make sense of their fate, and a band of girls rots from the outside in. These characters stumble through joy and murder and confusion, only to survive and wait for the next catastrophe to arrive. Moments so brief and disturbing you can't afford to look away. Jac Jamc''s affecting stories mine the territory between what is real and what it means to create understanding.
Author
Publisher
MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In Jac Jemc's dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces-some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and some not-work their ways into the mundanity of everyday life. In "Strange Loop," an outcast attempting to escape an unnamed mistake spends his days taxiderming animals, while in "Delivery," a family watches as their dementia-addled, basement-dwelling father succumbs to an online shopping addiction. "Don't...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Touring their prospective suburban home, Julie and James are stopped by a noise. Deep and vibrating, like throat singing. Ancient, husky, and rasping, but underwater. "That's just the house settling," the real estate agent assures them with a smile. He is wrong. The move-prompted by James's penchant for gambling and his general inability to keep his impulses in check-is quick and seamless; both Julie and James are happy to start afresh. But this...
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