How to Love a Black Hole - by Rebecca Fishow (Hardcover)

About the Book

How to Love a Black Hole is a formally inventive magical realist collection of stories, each exploring a kaleidoscope of love, desire, grief, and regret.

Book Synopsis

This is a limited-edition hardcover. How to Love a Black Hole is a strange and formally inventive collection containing eighteen flashes and stories-a woman grows ears all over her body, a husband's new bride drifts into the clouds, a garden yields a grotesque and bloody harvest. Throughout these and other uncanny stories, readers explore a kaleidoscope of love, desire, grief, and regret.

Review Quotes

"How to Love a Black Hole is, in many ways, a literary magic trick. Its eighteen short stories are breathtakingly brief, yet somehow simultaneously potent-serving up a delectable, multi-course feast for readers that doesn't seem possible, given the parameters and page count. Brimming with metaphor-and tackling raw corporeal themes, such as war, sex, and pregnancy (along with a healthy dose of the disembodied, ghosts in particular)-Rebecca Fishow's stunning second collection calls forth the fantastical innovation of Ramona Ausubel and the brilliant pithiness of Diane Williams." --Whitney Collins, author of Ricky & Other Love Stories

"Fishow is so alert to the world, through her language, that it makes the reader more alert to the world too." --George Saunders, author of Liberation Day

"Fishow is an extraordinary talent." --Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch

" . . . Rebecca Fishow's latest book of short fiction, How to Love a Black Hole, is a rapid, deft, and illusive collection. Moving between narrational mode with skill and fluidity, these stories explore the domestic, the quotidian, and the intimate within an often surreal, consistently inventive architecture, built out by sharp, surprising prose." --Chicago Review of Books

"How to Love a Black Hole pulls you into the emotional messiness of life and the importance of our bonds with others, leaving you with an experience that's both heart-wrenching and thought-provoking. The impact of these stories will stay with you, making you reflect on the hidden forces that shape our lives and the complex process of understanding ourselves and those around us." --MicroLit

". . . what sets How To Love A Black Hole apart is the sheer strangeness at the heart of most of its stories. Toeing the line between the truly speculative and the merely strange, Fishow fearlessly invokes the odd, the unusual, the paranormal, and the bizarre . . . " --Necessary Fiction