Little Ones

Description

Little Ones
by Grey Wolfe LaJoie

ISBN: 9798885740395
Softcover, new

Brief Description:
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 play in a space of shadows and in-betweens. Little Ones is
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.