Oddbody

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Dark and relentlessly weird . . . Full of heart and blood, this impressive, wildly imaginative collection heralds the arrival of a compelling new voice in speculative fiction * * New York Times * * Startling, funny, alarming [and] superbly crafted . . . Confident, witty and perceptive. These are sharp and memorable horror stories about the most ordinary horrors: having a body; having a heart; being a woman in the 21st-century West -- KEVIN POWER * * Irish Times * * This is weird girl fiction at its finest - an uneasy, bold and subversive collection of astonishing tales that left me hungry for more. With Rose Keating, we are witnessing the birth of a rare and precious talent in literature -- LUCY ROSE, author of THE LAMB Brutal, beautiful, bloodthirsty. Rose Keating writes with the vivid grace of a poet and the clear-eyed insight of someone who knows a ghost or two. One of the most memorable debuts I've read in a long time -- KIRSTY LOGAN Rib tickling and joyously diabolic, this book breathes a new and invigorating life into Irish literature -- CAMILLA GRUDOVA There's an impish playfulness and a deeply potent blight spreading from each story collected in Rose Keating's marvelously unnerving Oddbody. This superior collection of short fiction revels in the absurdity of human and non-human existence, gleefully celebrates the power of the uncanny, the atrocious and the bizarre. This is an ambitiously written and gorgeously imaginative collection penned by a brave new voice in literature with a very bright future ahead. Oddbody is one of the most audacious and thought provoking collections I've ever read -- ERIC LaROCCA Here's a collection from a writer defined by great curiosity and compassion. These stories are dark and sumptuous and unapologetically peculiar -- LISA McINERNEY Playful, brutal and disgustingly readable. Rose Keating is truly one to watch -- HEATHER PARRY Wonderfully weird . . . Keating successfully marries gorgeous prose to playfully grotesque scenarios * * Daily Mail * * In these unflinching stories, Keating builds a macabre world in which her characters are utterly free even within their various compulsions, constraints and grotesque circumstances. Compassionate, gross, deeply compelling. A must-read * * Kirkus Reviews * *