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The winner of the FC2 Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Double-Check for Sleeping Children is the newest work by award-winning writer Kirstin Allio At once formal and tidal, damning and dreaming, Kirstin Allio's Double-Check for Sleeping Children is charged with prayer, curse, redemption and abasement. Does truth come from reason, or beauty, or suffering? It takes the inner lives of outsiders, dark mirrors, and false ceilings to find an answer. Families split by social class, a wealthy young widow, addicts, hunters, poor whites, a green card bride and a nursing mother: in twenty poetically and morally propulsive short stories, Allio disquiets the sublimated and palpates shadows. She leads us through the sometimes flooded, other times flood-lit halls of the human soul. Part menacing, macabre Mary Gaitskill, part Denis Johnson in Jesus' Son, and with the taut, wry, tell-all detail of Elizabeth Hardwick, Double-Check for Sleeping Children deals in codedness and transgression. The stories explore coming of age in middle age, anxiety about time and technology, inverted revelation. "What was I supposed to do with Basho and Mosie?" Sheila asks herself about her children in "Uncollected Territories." "Be my real self? Hand myself over, do what you will with me, plant your strange selves in my private soil?"

Built on a foundation of lost documents, erased texts, invented histories, boxed manuscripts, stolen sources, and translations with no originals

"An unsettling tale of a witch and her young ward aboard the houseboat Veronica, endlessly sculling the waters at farthest edges of the known world - and the edges of reason, beauty, and horror. The Houseboat Veronica is a fatally comic sci-folk love story of blood and power and tomatoes. Love heads North, death goes South, and where they pass, within inches of each other, you'll find the black-haired woman. She's a witch, not a pirate. She's an artist of water and time"--

This "is a work of fiction composed as a love song in three movements: Orelia, in hiding; The 7th man; and The bodies of birds. Each movement explores the interconnectedness of humanity from a unique vantage point, using imaginative compassion and physical materiality to reveal how our bodies and our lives are forever bound, infinitely intertwined and interchangeable"--

"There Is Only One Ghost in the World by Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller is a work of fiction that uses a multilayered voice to bear witness to our time, diving into memory and longing to meditate on the best and worst in modern Americans"--

Winner of FC2's Catherine Doctorow Prize in Innovative Fiction

"School by Ray Levy is a novel about the trials of a young transgender person navigating the rituals of the academic life - power, possession, humiliation, the inhuman demands of capitalism on the university industry, and the libidinal economy of education"--