FICTION

Intimations

by Alexandra Kleeman
Harper. Sept. 2016. 256p. ISBN 9780062388704. $25.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062437532. SHORT STORIES
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Winner of the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize for You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, Kleeman returns with 12 edgy stories that have a surreal, even primal feel. A young woman, sitting in a dining room with her parents, is confused by the increasing number of unrecognizable men (one murderous) claiming to be her suitors, while a dancing-master in an unspecified time and place is smugly convinced that his art can civilize a feral lad who's staggered into the village. Elsewhere, a journalist fails to connect with a man she's met while trying to write a story about a dairy farmer, and meteorological events have a scattered impact on family in a too-fragmented narrative.
VERDICT Disturbing and fantastical in concept if not in language, these stories have the same disaffected feel as Kleeman's novel and won't convince all readers. For Kleeman fans. [See Prepub Alert, 3/21/16.]
Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , Sep 01, 2016
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