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In her debut collection, Emily W. Pease is at work redefining the Southern short story. Let Me Out Here explores the underbellies and strange desires of our neighbors, our loved ones, ourselves. A co-ed takes up with a mysterious cab driver; a young boy and his family follow their fundamentalist patriarch on a journey to a healing waterfall; a mother sets her balcony on fire after an awkward family dinner; a woman befriends the snakes her preacher boyfriend keeps in their shed.
Spread over the Bible Belt landscapes of East Tennessee, North Carolina, and West Virginia, the characters here find themselves at crossroads or alone on an empty street at night. With Let Me Out Here, Pease joins the ranks of Mary Gaitskill, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Kelly Link, and adds to their tradition a deft, singular style and a voice as darkly funny as it is exacting.
Let Me Out Here is the 2018 winner of the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize.
Price: $9.99
Publisher: Hub City Press
Imprint: Hub City Press
Publication Date:
19 March 2019
ISBN: 9781938235511
Format: eBook
BISACs:
FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Southern, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Literary
Emily W. Pease, a native of Charlotte, NC, graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in English and a concentration in journalism. She went on to receive an MA from Virginia Tech and an MFA in Writing from Warren Wilson College. Her stories have appeared in iWitness, the Missouri Review (Editors Prize in Fiction), the Georgia Review, Shenandoah (including the Bevel Summers Prize), Crazyhorse (Crazyshorts! Prize), the Alaska Quarterly Review, and Narrative. After teaching for many years at the College of William & Mary, she now teaches writing to veterans through the Armed Services Arts Partnership, where she also serves as a member of their arts council. She is currently beginning a novel about logging the last forests of West Virginia. She lives in Williamsburg, VA.