Heartbreaker

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In her debut story collection </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Heartbreaker</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Maryse Meijer peels back the crust of normalcy and convention unmasking the fury and violence we are willing to inflict in the name of love and loneliness. Her characters are a strange ensemble-a feral child a girl raised from the dead a possible pedophile-who share in vulnerability and heartache but maintain an unremitting will to survive. Meijer deals in desire and sex femininity and masculinity family and girlhood crafting a landscape of appetites threatening to self-destruct. In beautifully restrained and exacting prose she sets the marginalized free to roam her pages and burn our assumptions to the ground.</span></p><p><br></p>