Author:
S.P. Miskowski
66 pp.
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Synopsis
After a long and mysterious absence, Alma Parker returns to her rural Georgia home, setting off a violent emotional conflict with her sister Martha over control of the household. Raised on brutality and familial sacrifice, the sisters have taken different paths following the death of their mother. Together, the women must decide how to live in the shadow of their mother’s monstrous legacy.
Praise for Daughters of Catastrophe
“Narrated in prose as languid and deceptively dreamlike as a Georgia summer afternoon… Nobody does very bad women like Miskowski, and this deeply disturbing story further establishes her as a master at exploring the psychological terrain of the kind of women who aren’t supposed to exist.”
– Lynda E. Rucker, Shirley Jackson Award winner and author of You’ll Know When You Get There
“…the return home of a prodigal sister is the catalyst for a series of searing family revelations. Alternating between memory and confrontation, the narrative lays bare the secrets and sins that have bent and warped the lives of the three Parker sisters.”
– John Langan, author of Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions
“…a glorious, heady rush of red clay dusted prose… Miskowski has created a story that will linger in the darkest rooms where you store your secrets.”
– Kristi DeMeester, author of Dark Sisters
About the Author
S.P. Miskowski grew up in the Deep South where she spent many pitch-black, moonless nights at her aunt’s house lying awake beneath patchwork quilts and wondering what the people down the road were doing. Since then her stories and plays have been awarded two NEA fellowships, four of her books (including Daughters of Catastrophe, under the title Muscadines) have been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award, and her short stories have appeared in over forty anthologies and magazines. She is eternally grateful to the small press and specialty publishers who have taken a chance on this frightening tale of strange family love and loyalty. Thanks to Jordan Krall (Dunhams Manor Press), Mary SanGiovanni (Tempest) and Paul Goblirsch (Thunderstorm Books), and to Jon Padgett (Grimscribe Press).
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