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What to Put in a Suitcase Liz McSkeane

€14.00

Paperback: Short fiction 148 pages
ISBN 9781913598372

These sixteen stories follow a cast of characters destined to navigate a rich variety of situations that are by turns perplexing, stimulating, threatening: a suburban dinner party whose hosts harbour a troubling secret; a childhood prank in 1940s Dublin with tragic consequences; a family fleeing environmental disaster in a Dublin of the near future. Engaged with both the minutiae of thought processes and the impulse to action, these stories grapple with individual psychology and with wider themes of justice and the place of individual in contemporary society, at times seasoned with a sly humour. An intriguing and compelling collection.

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“The world of What to Put in a Suitcase is a very uncertain place, full of uncomfortable questions. We are frequently unsure where we are, the terrain shifts, the ground beneath our feet feels increasingly unstable. These are stories written in spare, pared-back language, with images that startle, packed with interior monologues that are rich with insight and observation and reflect the challenges of modern life: immigration, the pandemic, violence against women, society’s many inequalities.”
Catherine Dunne