Life on Mars

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2017

ISBN-13: 9780864929280

<p><b>Long-Shortlisted, 2018 Relit Award (Short Story Category)<br>Shortlisted, 2017 Danuta Gleed Literary Award<br>A <i>49th Shelf</i> Top Fiction Book of 2017</b></p><p>A middle-aged sportswriter gets a new lease on life with a heart transplant and develops an intimate relationship with his donated heart. Two brothers find in their rotting family tree the tangled roots of a dark childhood memory. A young woman travels to Thailand to reconnect body and soul and returns home, physically transformed, to face the wrath of her estranged mother. A divorced man struggling to rediscover his place in the world hits the road from California to Newfoundland, guided by an irascible talking squid.</p><p><i>Life on Mars</i>, Lori McNulty&#39;s wild debut collection, sears the heart with blinding black humour and whiplash fast prose. With a flawless talent for juxtaposing the absurd with the everyday, violence and discord with redemption and metamorphosis, McNulty takes readers on an unexpected ride into the core of human existence.</p><p>Blending aesthetic styles from high realism to the fable-esque, <i>Life on Mars</i> devours life&#39;s numbing tragedies and exhilarating passions with ravenous appetite. These are raw, moving, strange stories &#8212; an unforgettable reckoning for our disconnected times.</p>