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HONEYMOONS IN TEMPORARY LOCATIONS event at Content Bookstore with Ashley Shelby
October 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm CST
Ashley Shelby will join Content Bookstore on Thursday, October 3, 2024, for a reading and discussion of her new book Honeymoons in Temporary Locations, at 7:00 p.m. CST.
This event is free and open to the public.
Climate disaster–induced fugue states, mutinous polar bears, support groups for recently displaced millionaires, men who hear trees, and women who lose their wives on environmental refugee resettlement trips. In these dispatches from a weirding world, the absurd and fantastic are increasingly indistinguishable from reality. Exploring this liminal moment, Ashley Shelby’s collection of climate fictions imagines a near future that is both unnervingly familiar and subversively strange.
“Tongue-in-cheek, mournful, and inventive, Honeymoons in Temporary Locations is a bracing collection of cautionary tales regarding the too-probable near future.” —Foreword Reviews, starred review
“Honeymoons in Temporary Locations is a deeply felt, deeply imagined collection of dispatches from the weirdest extrapolatory fringes of the world we’ve made, the world we’ve allowed to happen. Ashley Shelby has kaleidoscopic vision—from climate disaster tourism brochures to refugee camps for the rich to talking bears, she has created a vivid, terrifying, and unexpected landscape. There is a profound grief that runs through these stories, grief over what is becoming of our natural world as a result of our very unnatural way of living, but also a sense of connection.” —Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise
“Writer Ashley Shelby’s storytelling is brisk, sharp-elbowed and deeply empathetic, even as she experiments with a host of forms, including the brochure text for a cruise to flooded cities.” —Scientific American
