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"A collection of fiction and graphic ephemera, Little Ones plays in a space of shadows and in-betweens. Informed by Appalachian experience and traditions of Southern storytelling, these award-winning stories are populated by the world's dispossessed, disturbed, and disregarded: the quiet interior life of a passed-over laborer, the bedtime story a goose tells a snake about a boy named Grey, moments of a road-killed raccoon's afterlife, advice to the children of a future apocalypse. These mischievous polyvocal tales are an exercise in audacity, in embracing the bizarre and carnivalesque within us. Grey Wolfe LaJoie employs uncanny wit and deep empathy to explore the way shame can turn into desperate violence, and to shed light on the smallest among us"--
List of contents
Contents
Questions
The Locksmith
Work
Snek & Goose
Interview with the Pope
Idly
Baby
How Come All the Schools Shutted Down
Delivery
Ampersand Jansen
Maria
Unfinished, Unfinished
A Whole Nother World
Mention of Flesh
Interview with Horsie
Aisle Six
A Tale for Children, Told by Mister Jasper
Saturday
Going
Frank
Wiki
Acknowledgements
About the author
Born in Western North Carolina,
Grey Wolfe LaJoie’s writing has been featured in numerous journals and anthologies, including
The Threepenny Review, Crazyhorse, Shenandoah, Copper Nickel, the 2024 Pushcart Prize Anthology, and the 2023 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. They hold an MFA from the University of Alabama, and currently work for Auburn University’s Alabama Prison Arts & Education Project organizing and teaching creative writing classes in correctional facilities throughout the state. They currently reside in Birmingham, AL.
Summary
A collection of fiction and graphic ephemera, Little Ones plays in a space of shadows and in-betweens.
Informed by Appalachian experience and traditions of Southern storytelling, these award-winning stories are populated by the world’s dispossessed, disturbed, and disregarded: the quiet interior life of a passed-over laborer, the bedtime story a goose tells a snake about a boy named Grey, moments of a road-killed raccoon's afterlife, advice to the children of a future apocalypse.
These mischievous polyvocal tales are an exercise in audacity, in embracing the bizarre and carnivalesque within us. Grey Wolfe LaJoie employs uncanny wit and deep empathy to explore the way shame can turn into desperate violence, and to shed light on the smallest among us.
Foreword
Anticipated Coverage
Reckon Review - review
Marketing
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Publicity
National print, digital, and broadcast review coverage in magazines, newspapers, online publications, NPR, literary news outlets, and more targeted outreach for Southern media book coverage
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Events
Substantial tour to indie bookstores, pandemic providing, throughout the South
Writing conferences, workshops, and in conversation readings
