You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories
Mary South
In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves An architect draws questionable inspiration from her daughter's birth defect. A content moderator for "the world's biggest search engine," who spends her days culling videos of beheadings and suicides, turns from stalking her rapist online to following him in real life. At a camp for recovering internet trolls, a sensitive misfit goes missing. A wounded mother raises the second incarnation of her child. In You Will Never Be Forgotten, Mary South explores how technology can both collapse our relationships from within and provide opportunities for genuine connection. Formally inventive, darkly absurdist, savagely critical of the increasingly fraught cultural climates we inhabit, these ten stories also find hope in fleeting interactions and moments of tenderness. They reveal our grotesque selfishness and our intense need for love and acceptance, and the psychic pain that either shuts us off or allows us to discover our deepest reaches of empathy. This incendiary debut marks the arrival of a perceptive, idiosyncratic, instantly recognizable voice in fiction--one that could only belong to Mary South.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Mary SouthPublisher: Fsg OriginalsPublished: 03/10/2020ISBN: 9780374538361Pages: 256Weight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.80dReview Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/18/2019Booklist 12/01/2019 pg. 27Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2020Shelf Awareness 04/07/2020
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Mary South
Publisher: Fsg Originals
Published: 03/10/2020
ISBN: 9780374538361
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.80d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/18/2019
Booklist 12/01/2019 pg. 27
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2020
Shelf Awareness 04/07/2020
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Mary South
Publisher: Fsg Originals
Published: 03/10/2020
ISBN: 9780374538361
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.80d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/18/2019
Booklist 12/01/2019 pg. 27
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2020
Shelf Awareness 04/07/2020
Book Title
You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories
ISBN
9780374538361
In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves
An architect draws questionable inspiration from her daughter's birth defect. A content moderator for "the world's biggest search engine," who spends her days culling videos of beheadings and suicides, turns from stalking her rapist online to following him in real life. At a camp for recovering internet trolls, a sensitive misfit goes missing. A wounded mother raises the second incarnation of her child. In You Will Never Be Forgotten, Mary South explores how technology can both collapse our relationships from within and provide opportunities for genuine connection. Formally inventive, darkly absurdist, savagely critical of the increasingly fraught cultural climates we inhabit, these ten stories also find hope in fleeting interactions and moments of tenderness. They reveal our grotesque selfishness and our intense need for love and acceptance, and the psychic pain that either shuts us off or allows us to discover our deepest reaches of empathy. This incendiary debut marks the arrival of a perceptive, idiosyncratic, instantly recognizable voice in fiction--one that could only belong to Mary South.Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Mary South
Publisher: Fsg Originals
Published: 03/10/2020
ISBN: 9780374538361
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.80d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/18/2019
Booklist 12/01/2019 pg. 27
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2020
Shelf Awareness 04/07/2020
In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves
An architect draws questionable inspiration from her daughter's birth defect. A content moderator for "the world's biggest search engine," who spends her days culling videos of beheadings and suicides, turns from stalking her rapist online to following him in real life. At a camp for recovering internet trolls, a sensitive misfit goes missing. A wounded mother raises the second incarnation of her child. In You Will Never Be Forgotten, Mary South explores how technology can both collapse our relationships from within and provide opportunities for genuine connection. Formally inventive, darkly absurdist, savagely critical of the increasingly fraught cultural climates we inhabit, these ten stories also find hope in fleeting interactions and moments of tenderness. They reveal our grotesque selfishness and our intense need for love and acceptance, and the psychic pain that either shuts us off or allows us to discover our deepest reaches of empathy. This incendiary debut marks the arrival of a perceptive, idiosyncratic, instantly recognizable voice in fiction--one that could only belong to Mary South.Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Mary South
Publisher: Fsg Originals
Published: 03/10/2020
ISBN: 9780374538361
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.80d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/18/2019
Booklist 12/01/2019 pg. 27
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2020
Shelf Awareness 04/07/2020