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Award-winning author Leslie Greentree presents fourteen short stories in this dark, often funny, deeply compelling collection that asks how we locate, create, and avoid meaning in our lives. These are stories about people and relationships challenged by death and redeemed by art.
Satirical, political, personal, and tender, they take us to funerals, protests, art galleries, to the dark side of the service industry, and through cities on fire.
“Leslie Greentree’s Not the Apocalypse I Was Hoping For crackles with playfulness and wit, its dark humour bringing into stark relief the gut punch of truth at the heart of every story. This is one of those books you’ll find yourself thinking about in the most unexpected places: its exquisitely crafted lines, rich characters, and truly original storylines coming back to you in the shower, in the car, while walking the dog. Greentree’s writing exposes both the absurdity and spectacular beauty of what it means to be human, and I know I will be revisiting these stories—both in my mind and on the page—for years to come.”
– Amy Jones, author of We’re All in This Together and Every Little Piece of Me
“Haunting and soulful, tender and perverse, this extraordinary collection explores loss and longing and how perilously complicated love can be. Readers drawn to rich prose and gut-wrenching aha moments will devour these riveting tales.”
– Fran Kimmel, author of No Good Asking
“Greentree pulls off something marvelous in these stories which are at once careening, jagged, yet spare, crafted; sardonic, yet intimate; earthy, yet laced with poetic resonance. At times, real menace lurks, offset by Greentree’s brilliant humour, wit, and skill at ripping back the veils of absurdity and pretension that so often permeate our social landscapes. You’ll be hooked from the first sentence of the opening story.”
– Jeanette Lynes, author of The Apothecary’s Garden