Antipodes

✍ Scribed by Holly Goddard Jones

• Book ID: 110803067
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 150 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781609388300
• ASIN: B09YDQBSMM

✦ Synopsis

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."