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AnnElise Hatjakes - Matter Out of Place, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Matter Out of Place

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Av AnnElise Hatjakes

Del i serien Western Literature and Fiction Series

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A grieving mother ghost-hunts in Virginia City. A college student's field trip to the Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel spurs a sexual awakening. A boy starts a wildfire on Peavine while trying to impress his crush. A schoolteacher is dismissed, and the aftermath unfolds in a schoolwide email chain. A woman tries on new identities at Burning Man. All must contend with their complicated histories and answer the question: is being from a place the same as being of it?   Experimental in its approach and unflinching in its execution, Matter Out of Place is an exploration of bright spots of humanity in dark underbellies, a feminist reckoning with "sin," and a love letter to the strange mirage that is northern Nevada. It inhabits physical and digital spaces with equal wariness, and its characters—filled with grit—navigate the fraught divide between appearances and reality, approval and judgment, gambling everything despite knowing that the house always wins.
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AnnElise Hatjakes holds a PhD in creative writing from the University of Missouri and an MFA in fiction from the University of Nevada, Reno, where she works as a teaching assistant professor. Her stories have appeared in Juked, Bull, Tahoma Literary Review, and Typehouse, among other journals, and have been shortlisted for the Neil Shepard Prize in Fiction and the Curt Johnson Prose Award.

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"Brutal yet tender, wry but clear-eyed, Matter Out of Place is an eerie love letter to the West, one that will slice your heart open. These finely crafted stories navigate the dizzying contradictions demanded of women in ways that feel both timeless and painfully specific to our late-stage capitalist present." - Casey Bell, author of Little Fury "Matter Out of Place reads like a status update from the underbelly of the American dream. The Nevada setting evokes both the scarcity of the desert and the excess of the casino, creating a landscape that is by turns comical, threatening, and absurd. The collection sizzles with sounds, sights, sensations, and brutal economic assessments. Hatjakes, who writes with the observational skills of a journalist and the precision of a poet, has a sharp eye for the characters of our century: the influencers and content managers, the ghost hunters and beauty consultants, the exotic dancers and security guards. Formally inventive and psychologically astute, Matter Out of Place should win Hatjakes her own place in the literary canon of the Wild West and beyond." - Trudy Lewis, author of The Empire Rolls"The Nevada landscape of Matter Out of Place is constantly shifting, requiring characters to keep up—or catch up. Readers hold out hope for these characters, while also feeling very strongly just how long the odds are for them to get what they want. Hatjakes is an exciting new voice in short fiction." - Kate McIntyre, associate professor of creative writing, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, author of Mad Prairie, recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Award

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