Heartbreaker: Stories

In her debut story collection Heartbreaker, Maryse Meijer peels back the crust of normalcy and convention, unmasking the fury and violence we are willing to inflict in the name of love and loneliness. Her characters are a strange ensemble--a feral child, a girl raised from the dead, a possible pedophile--who share in vulnerability and heartache, but maintain an unremitting will to survive. Meijer deals in desire and sex, femininity and masculinity, family and girlhood, crafting a landscape of appetites threatening to self-destruct. In beautifully restrained and exacting prose, she sets the marginalized free to roam her pages and burn our assumptions to the ground.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Fsg Originals
Published: 07/12/2016
ISBN: 9780374536060
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2016
Publishers Weekly 05/23/2016
Booklist 06/01/2016 pg. 40