Name: Slipping
ISBN: 9781616962432

Lauren Beukes

A Punk Lolita fighter-pilot rescues Tokyo from a marauding art installation. A young architect’s life is derailed by an inquisitive girl who happens to be a ghost. Loyalty to a favorite product can be addictive when it gets under your skin. In her edgy and satiric debut collection, award-winning South African author Lauren Beukes (The Shining Girls) never holds back. Ranging from Johannesburg to outer space, Beukes is a fierce and captivating presence in the literary landscape.

Stories, Essays, & Other Writing

Slipping

Edgy and retrospective collection of short stories, essays and more.

Stories, Essays & Other Writing

Lauren Attaway

This book is a compilation of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction writings. I breezed through certain pieces and struggled to finish others. The good pieces outweighed the snippets I didn't enjoy as much.

The section that was my favorite was the Non-fiction writing, and the piece she wrote about her novel The Shining Girls stayed with me the most. I read this book because I so enjoyed that one. Understanding her connection to the work makes me appreciate it even more. It's an important reminder to me of the ways that reality can inspire art. 

It also got me thinking about perspective, and not for the first time I'm left wondering how many of the places I've been able to visit in my mind through books are completely skewed by the author's view? The traits that are captured in several books-are they just the same series of ideas passed by one writer to the next?

This all has very little to do with Slipping, for which I apologize. This collection was overall very interesting and really inspired a lot of thought on my end. While I didn't devour it in one sitting, I enjoyed parts of it very much and other parts lesser so, but I wouldn't take back the experience of reading it.

Thanks to NetGalley for the copy!

Slipping Stories, Essays, & Other Writing

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