Publisher's Synopsis
New fiction from National Endowment for the Arts recipient, Sarah Anne Strickley!
With Incendiary Devices: Stories, Sarah Anne Strickley blends her trademark lyricism with speculative experiment in the form of stories that take readers into alternative possibilities for the characters present in such canonical works as William Faulker's As I Lay Dying, Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, and others. Though not all of the stories are explicit re-tellings, they do all approach familiar storylines and tropes with a fresh--and unabashedly feminist--perspective. If you've ever wondered what happens to Dewey Dell after her mother is safely in the ground, what Amy's true feelings about her sister Joe's literary success might be, or what happens when a newspaper headline becomes the story of your life, this is the collection for you. While Strickley's critical gaze is brave and unwavering, readers will also enjoy her wry sense of humor and the room she makes in her storyworlds for the possibility of change. Incendiary Devices offers a glimpse of a future in which new narrative patterns shape the stories we know and love, but it doesn't hesitate to grapple with the limitations of the present.
Fiction.
