Our Lives Became Unmanageable (The Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Prize
Jackie Craven
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Release Date: 15/11/2016
Selected by Kate Bernheimer as winner of the 2014 Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Contest
An advertising copywriter searches for her missing reflection. An artist tries to sculpt clouds. A businessman fades into the atmosphere while an old man drifts over rooftops, his gravity broken. Eleven narrative strands fragment and reform to weave a story of other-worldly ailments and compulsions. As the befuddled narrators cross paths, their lives grow increasingly unmanageable. Told with wit and pathos, the linked tales are comical and strange, yet heartbreakingly familiar. These are the confessions you might hear at a 12-step meeting in a universe of fairy tales and dreams.