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Mammals, I Think We Are Called Giselle Leeb

Mammals, I Think We Are Called By Giselle Leeb

Mammals, I Think We Are Called by Giselle Leeb


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Ambitious and playful, darkly humorous and imaginative, these strikingly original stories move effortlessly between the realistic and the fantastical, as their outsider characters explore what it's like to be human in the twenty-first century.

Mammals, I Think We Are Called Summary

Mammals, I Think We Are Called by Giselle Leeb

Longlisted for The Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2023

Ambitious and playful, darkly humorous and imaginative, these strikingly original stories move effortlessly between the realistic and the fantastical, as their outsider characters explore what it's like to be human in the twenty-first century. Whether about our relationship with the environment and animals, technology, social media, loneliness, or the enormity of time, they reflect the complexities of being alive. Beautifully written and compelling, you won't read anything else like them.

Mammals, I Think We Are Called Reviews

I've been waiting for a collection of Giselle Leeb's short stories for a few years, and it's just as wonderful as I'd hoped! With wry dark humour and a boundless and inventive imagination, Leeb makes us look at the familiar with fresh eyes, taking us out of our everyday realities to explore everything that makes us human or non-human. From the weatherman in the opening story onwards, you won't want to put this book down, but you will make yourself because you don't want it to end. Everything that makes a great short story is here.

-- Tania Hershman

It is both thought-provoking and entertaining, perhaps because of the author's constant focus on building a sense of atmosphere ... A collection that manages to balance heavy topics, while also leaving the reader with a sense of hope, Leeb hits a balance ... Skillfully ambiguous, dark and also optimistic, Mammals I Think We Are Called is a wonderful contribution to the local literary world.

-- Lizzy O'Riordan * Leftlion *

These stories are startlingly weird, blackly hilarious, raw and dreamlike. The common thread I think is a breathtakingly of-this-moment sense of alienation - from the natural world, from each other, from a sense of what's true and what's deception. But there's always a shred of hope somewhere in among the disaffection and pain, and that's what pulls me through the moments of horror ... I was surprised by the range and breadth of these stories, and in particular was amazed at the poise of The Goldfinch is Fine, in which a weatherman gradually loses his mind over an irrational, then increasingly certain terror of rising seas, Hooked, in which collective, hallucinatory dreams reunite an isolated city, and Barleycorn, in which a mysterious plague of spontaneous hair growth coincides with a hunt for a serial killer. These are challenging stories that invite the reader to engage in unexpected depth.

-- Michael DeLuca

These eighteen short stories are fantastically imaginative and cover a wide range of themes including identity, psychology, and the environment. There is humour and darkness, joy and sorrow, realism and the Fantastick. There's extreme weather, toy apes coming to life, hauntings, cyborgs, and even cryogenics. Wide-ranging in theme and style, they were a delight.

-- Rupert Dastur

About Giselle Leeb

Giselle Leeb's short stories have appeared in Best British Short Stories 2017 (Salt), Ambit, Mslexia, The Lonely Crowd, Litro, Black Static, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and other places, and have been placed and shortlisted in competitions, including the Bridport, Ambit and Mslexia prizes. She is an assistant editor at Reckoning Journal and a Word Factory Apprentice Award winner 2019. She grew up in South Africa and lives in Nottingham.

Additional information

GOR012712116
9781784632670
1784632678
Mammals, I Think We Are Called by Giselle Leeb
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Salt Publishing
20221015
240
Long-listed for Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story 2023 (UK)
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