Shortlisted for the 2021 Giller Prize, this imaginative debut collection evokes wonder and longing.
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.“The land here eats everything,” thinks the narrator of The Lady with the Big Head Chronicle, the first story of Glorious Frazzled Beings, longlisted for the 2021 Giller Prize. “There are after all so many intact spirits roaming, and they are hungry for knowing.”
The collection is anchored by the idea of home, and is divided into four parts: Homemaking, Housekeeping, Home Breaking and Homing. Beyond the dwellings we inhabit and the people we share them with, Lalonde is attuned to the power and of the land itself and the magic that suffuses it.
In Malarkey, a woman who longs for a child contemplates her self-absorbed partner and his fixation on the intergalactic fantasy series he is writing. Lalonde understands obsessions, and depicts them in all their strange tenderness. “If you asked her she would tell you she loves him like a sheep love clover: wrapped into its tongue and pushed sideways, mashed into sweet liquid green and fibre in the crush of its grinding teeth.
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