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The Rock Eaters : Stories by Brenda Peynado, 1985- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first generation experiences to xenophobia. What does it mean to be other? This question murmus in the heart of each of Brenda Peynado's strange and singular stories. Threaded with magic, transcending time and place, these stories explore what it means to cross borders and break down walls, personally and politically. In one story, suburban families perform oblations to cattle-like angels who live on their roofs, believing that their "thought and prayers" will protect them from the world's violence. In another, inhabitants of an unnamed dictatorship slowly lose their own agency as pieces of their bodies go missing and, with them, the essential rights that those appendages serve. "The Great Escape" tells of an old woman who...

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Author

Brenda Peynado, 1985-

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143135623

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (73 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14