Antipodes: Stories -- Holly Goddard Jones

A harried and depressed mother of three young children serves on a committee that watches over the bottomless sinkhole that has appeared in her Kentucky town. During COVID lockdown, a thirty-four-year-old gamer moves back home with his parents and is revisited by his long-forgotten childhood imaginary friend. A politician running for a state congressional seat and a young mother, who share the same set of fears about the future, cross paths but don't fully understand one another. A woman attends a party at the home of a fellow church parishioner and discovers she is on the receiving end of a sales pitch for a doomsday prepper.

These stories and more contemplate our current reality with both frankness and hard-earned hopefulness, realism and fabulism, tackling parenthood, environment, and the absurd-but-unavoidable daily toil of worrying about mundane matters when we've entered "an era of unknowability, of persistent strangeness."


Author: Holly Goddard Jones
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 05/10/2022
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781609388294

Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 05/20/2022