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    salt slow
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    salt slow

    Written by Julia Armfield

    Narrated by Kristin Atherton

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    "Artistic and perceptive, Armfield’s debut explores the ebbs and flows of human connection in lives touched by the bizarre." - Kirkus

    From White Review Short Story Prize winner Julia Armfield, a brilliant, provocative debut story collection for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link.

    In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers’ sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan’s shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates’. As a popular band gathers momentum, the fangirls following their tour turn into something monstrous. After their parents remarry, two step-sisters, one a girl and one a wolf, develop a dangerously close bond. And in an apocalyptic landscape, a pregnant woman begins to realize that the creature in her belly is not what she expected.

    Blending elements of horror, science fiction, mythology, and feminism, salt slow is an utterly original collection of short stories that are sure to dazzle and shock, heralding the arrival of a daring new voice.

    Praise for salt slow:

    “Visceral, fierce, and beautifully unsettling, Armfield’s writing has an astonishing power. This collection haunted me with its brilliance.” — Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory

    “Armfield is an enormous, gut-wrenching talent.” — Daisy Johnson, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Everything Under

    Editor's Note

    Book club pick…

    The final pick of 2019 for Emma Roberts’ Belletrist book club was “salt slow,” a fierce, feminist short story collection. This debut deals with the supernatural, the bizarre, and an underlying horror to reveal the snarled nature of human relationships.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateOct 8, 2019
    ISBN9781250243041
    Author

    Julia Armfield

    Julia Armfield lives and works in London. She is a fiction writer and occasional playwright with a Masters in Victorian Art and Literature from Royal Holloway University. Her work has been published in Lighthouse, Analog Magazine, The white Review and Salt's Best British Short Stories 2019. She was commended in the Moth Short Story Prize 2017, longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Prize 2018 and is the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize 2018.

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    • 5/5
      Stich a great compilation is stories. Well written and I found myself very absorbed in the stories.
      Recommend.
    • 5/5
      THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL. The narrator did such a good job!
    • 4/5
      This book is... odd. The less scary, but none the less odd, fem fatale version of Alvin Schwarz's Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark. Each chapter is a different short story. Normal but not and leaves you to imagine the end. Well written. A pretty decent read (well I listened to the audio book, the reader was very good.)