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Happy Stories, Mostly

Norman Erikson Pasaribu
3.73/5 (1006 ratings)
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Playful, shape-shifting and emotionally charged, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve stories that queer the norm. Inspired by Simone Weil’s concept of ‘decreation’, and often drawing on Batak and Christian cultural elements, these tales put queer characters in situations and plots conventionally filled by hetero characters.

The stories talk to each other, echo phrases and themes, and even shards of stories within other stories, passing between airports, stacks of men’s lifestyle magazines and memories of Toy Story 3, such that each one almost feels like a puzzle piece of a larger whole, but with crucial facts – the saddest ones, the happiest ones – omitted, forgotten, unbearable.

A blend of science fiction, absurdism and alternative-historical realism, Happy Stories, Mostly is a powerful puff of fresh air, aimed at destabilising the heteronormative world and exposing its underlying absences.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
151 pages
Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Tilted Axis Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1911284630
ISBN13:
9781911284635
kindle Asin:
B0CCC4S66R

Happy Stories, Mostly

Norman Erikson Pasaribu
3.73/5 (1006 ratings)
Read Download
Playful, shape-shifting and emotionally charged, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve stories that queer the norm. Inspired by Simone Weil’s concept of ‘decreation’, and often drawing on Batak and Christian cultural elements, these tales put queer characters in situations and plots conventionally filled by hetero characters.

The stories talk to each other, echo phrases and themes, and even shards of stories within other stories, passing between airports, stacks of men’s lifestyle magazines and memories of Toy Story 3, such that each one almost feels like a puzzle piece of a larger whole, but with crucial facts – the saddest ones, the happiest ones – omitted, forgotten, unbearable.

A blend of science fiction, absurdism and alternative-historical realism, Happy Stories, Mostly is a powerful puff of fresh air, aimed at destabilising the heteronormative world and exposing its underlying absences.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
151 pages
Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Tilted Axis Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1911284630
ISBN13:
9781911284635
kindle Asin:
B0CCC4S66R

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