{"product_id":"pretend-we-live-here-paperback","title":"Pretend We Live Here - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGenevieve Hudson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her debut collection of stories, \u003cem\u003ePretend We Live Here\u003c\/em\u003e, Genevieve Hudson explores the idea of home and what it means to find one: in the body, in the world, in other people. Her characters are seekers, whose actions are influenced by their slippery identities and by the strange landscapes that surround them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Boy Box,\" a young woman yearns to test her luck with a wild punk girl crush. In \"God Hospital,\" a character journeys deep into the woods of Alabama in search of an infamous religious healer, hoping he can fix her teeth. In \"Adorno,\" someone in need of forgiveness crosses paths with a band of radical vegan activists and gets subsumed into their world. In \"Dance!,\" a recluse writes a breakthrough song for her pink dolphin, but the song's success only drives her further away from society. Set in Amsterdam, the Pacific Northwest, and the Deep South, these stories hum with sexual tension, queerness, displacement, longing, humor, and dark nostalgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A terrific collection of stories. There are echoes here of Flannery O'Connor, Barry Hannah, and Denis Johnson, but Genevieve Hudson is her own writer--impressively and gloriously so. Her eye for the clinching detail is unnerving and her sympathies are fascinatingly conflicted. I hope, and suspect, this book will be the start of a long and inspiring career.\" -Tom Bissell, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Disaster Artist\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMagic Hours \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003ePretend We Live Here\u003c\/em\u003e, characters bleed and breathe with a caustic energy that dares the reader to keep pace as they are taken from the Deep South to Western Europe and back again. Genevieve Hudson is a new, coming-of-age voice that spotlights rural America, injecting it with a queer freshness that makes her writing impossible to forget.\" -Jing-Jing Lee, author of \u003cem\u003eHow We Disappeared\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenevieve Hudson is also the author of \u003cem\u003eA Little in Love with Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e (Fiction Advocate, 2018), a book on Alison Bechdel's \u003cem\u003eFun Home\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing has been published in \u003cem\u003eCatapult, Hobart, Tin House \u003c\/em\u003eonline, \u003cem\u003e Joyland, Vol.1 Brooklyn, Split Lip, The Collagist, No Tokens, Bitch, The Rumpus, \u003c\/em\u003e and other places. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright Program and artist residencies at the Dickinson House, Caldera Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University, where she occasionally teaches Fiction Writing and Gender Studies courses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 148\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 24, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760163225888,"sku":"9781892061829","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/74038521c8adb7283b4f179a4d30df8d.webp?v=1780173252","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/pretend-we-live-here-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}