Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive

Alison Gadsby

Guernica Editions

Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive

by Alison Gadsby

Guernica Editions

Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive blurs the lines between horror, catastrophic speculative fiction, and psychological realism in a collection that might best be described as weird fiction. These connected stories offer dark reconstructions of lives brimming with desperate loneliness. They allow us to bear witness to the life-altering love of sisters, brothers, mothers… the life-altering love that buoys them as they struggle to stay afloat in the wake of childhoods they merely survived.

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Alison Gadsby is a first-generation Canadian, born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario. She graduated from York University with an HBA in English and Creative Writing and holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her writing has appeared in various literary journals, including Blank Spaces, The Temz Review, The Ex-Puritan, and many more. Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive, published by Guernica Editions, is her first book. Alison is the founder/host of Junction Reads, a literary reading series in Tkaronto where she lives and writes in a multi-generational home that includes several dogs.  

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