A man, forgotten by the world, takes care of his deaf brother while euthanising dogs for a living. A stepbrother so desperately wants to become his step-sibling that he rapes his girlfriend. In Maryse Meijer’s decidedly dark and searingly honest collection Rag, the desperate human desire for connection slips into a realm that approximates horror.
Meijer’s explosive debut collection, Heartbreaker, reinvented sexualised and romantic taboos, holding nothing back. In Rag, Meijer’s fearless follow-up, she shifts her focus to the dark heart of intimacies of all kinds, and the ways in which isolated people’s yearning for community can breed violence, danger, and madness. With unparalleled precision, Meijer spins stories that leave you troubled and slightly shaken by her uncanny ability to elicit empathy for society’s most marginalised people.
- ISBN10 0374246238
- ISBN13 9780374246235
- Publish Date 1 March 2019
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 September 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 160
- Language English