Les Femmes Grotesques

<p class=MsoNormal><span><b>In each of these stories the reader is lured into a sinister shadow space one both familiar and uncanny.</b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span>Life is strange beautiful and terrible in the world of Victoria Dalpe's debut short story collection. Her characters run the gamut from nosy neighbors to boomtown prostitutes sentient moss to ghouls with a taste for artist's flesh. The stories contain chance encounters with truck stop mystics haunted reality show renovations and cat people roaming the western plains. In Dalpe's writing horror mixes with humor and the ordinary with the macabre. <i>Les Femmes Grotesques</i> is a unique and lush reading experience. Tragic and transformative-an unabashed exploration of the dark feminine.</span><span></span></p>