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St\u00e9phanie Chaillou<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

Translated by Laura Mullen<\/a><\/h2>\n

something happens<\/h3>\n

ISBN:\u00a09781956921502<\/span><\/p>\n

(pbk., 100 pages, 5×8 inches)
\nCover art: James Weston, \u00a92025.<\/p>\n

(June 1, 2025)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n

St\u00e9phanie Chaillou\u2019s something happens<\/em> is a haunted chamber work evoking fugitive psychic states rarely experienced on the page. It is a piece exquisite in its beauty\u2014poignant and arresting in its dread and despair. A shadow world of childhood lived for a lifetime in intimations, now brought to English in a lucid and sensitive translation by Laura Mullen. There\u2019s a terrible inevitability to the narrative as it obliquely works its way into our souls in unbidden, uncanny, indelible images and leads us to the place we sense we dare not go.\u00a0
\n\u2014Carole Maso, author of Mother & Child<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In Laura Mullen\u2019s exemplary and fierce translation of St\u00e9phanie Chaillou\u2019s quelque chose se passe (something happens),<\/em> the body is voided and duplicated in the same instant, a writing I want to keep writing with. Here, a muzzle fuses with a mouth, a headless girl turns her head. A woman and the house she\u2019s living in are indistinguishable, an extended phenotype of girlhood itself. This is flesh architecture rendered in syntax that also does another kind of work, a mode I might describe as inhibitory, a pressure that builds. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2014Bhanu Kapil, author of How to Wash a Heart<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

something happens<\/em> presents the purest mystery, that which is never defined. We meet a killer for hire who works for the pleasure of killing, a headless girl who nonetheless bites, and, by the end of the book, someone lies dead in a garden. You didn\u2019t dream it<\/em>, Chaillou tells us: something irrevocable has transpired, which will stay with us long after the final page.
\n\u2014Ana Reyes, author of The House in the Pines<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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