Description
Suzanne Burns
The Orchard of Unbidden Fruit
ISBN: 978-1-956921-79-3 (pbk.)
(January 1, 2027)
This surreal collection of linked stories follow one woman through the first one-hundred days after her final period. Each entry is anchored to a fruit or vegetable, cherries, corn, strawberries, lemons, pears, as ordinary foods become portals to strange visitations, small hauntings and unruly transformations. Hot flashes set off popcorn storms. A mirror offers a life that never quite arrives. Lemons draw strangers to her door. Pies appear, unasked-for. Blending the domestic with the uncanny, these vignettes trace a body in transition and a world that no longer obeys familiar seasons. The result is a darkly funny, intimate meditation on menopause.
Praise
Suzanne Burns is insubordinate, and The Orchard of Unbidden Fruit is a chronicle of her unrepentant transgressions. Pornographically lush, explicitly bizarre, articulating messy human yearnings like a recipe for rhubarb pie. This book is an enigma. This book is a complaint. Whatever this book is, it will leave you shook.
—Matthew Thomas Meade, author of Strip Mall
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