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AMELIA GRAY reads from her new novel GUTSHOT

Gutshot (Farrar Straus Giroux)

A woman creeps through the ductwork of a quiet home. A medical procedure reveals an object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a town. Amelia Gray's curio cabinet expands in Gutshot, where isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark and outrageous edges. These singular stories live and breathe on their own, pulsating with energy and humanness and a glorious sense of humor. Hers are stories that you will read and reread--raw gems that burrow into your brain, reminders of just how strange and beautiful our world is. These collected stories come to us like a vivisected body, the whole that is all the more elegant and breathtaking for exploring its most grotesque and intimate lightless viscera.

Praise for Gutshot

“Exhilarating and violently creative, these stories are an assault on expectation. Gutshot is a rare, new original, and Amelia Gray is her own startling genre. This is a book to be experienced rather than read, to be taught and obsessed over, to live as a prized weapon on your bookshelf.” —Alissa Nutting, author of Tampa

Gutshot is a wild journey through the singular imagination of Amelia Gray, one of the most ambitious and relentlessly inventive writers of our time. The worlds Gray conjures are gorgeous and gruesome and devastating and stone-cold hilarious—but more than anything, these stories are as fearless and original as they come.” —Laura van den Berg, author of The Isle of Youth and Find Me

“Amelia Gray’s writing makes you feel like you’ve been shot out of a cannon. You’re disoriented, stunned, completely overcome … but you’re also flying through the air. Get ready. Gutshot is a book of lit matches.” —Lindsay Hunter, author of Ugly Girls and Don’t Kiss Me

Gutshot is a nightmare in the best way. Every story is visceral, fearless, and painfully true.” —Catherine Lacey, author of Nobody Is Ever Missing

“Call them what you must—stories, fables, parables, nanonovels of melancholized hilarity—but Amelia Gray’s super-concentrated, hyper-velocitous prose marvelments do what so few fictions even attempt: leave you gasping from one unsettling sentence to the next. Have our clammiest moments and the squishes, the squirms, of our unthriving, unsightly bodies ever been rendered with such tender and generous genius? Gutshot has the delirious feel of a heart-shaker of a book that has been waiting forever to get itself written and, lucky for us, has finally fetched up stickingly on the page.” —Gary Lutz, author of Stories in the Worst Way

Amelia Gray is the author of three books: AM/PM, Museum of the Weird, and Threats. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Tin House. She lives in Los Angeles.

Event date: 
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 7:30pm
Event address: 
1818 N Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Gutshot: Stories By Amelia Gray Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780374175443
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: FSG Originals - April 14th, 2015

Threats: A Novel By Amelia Gray Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780374533076
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Published: FSG Originals - February 28th, 2012

Museum of the Weird By Amelia Gray Cover Image
$17.95
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ISBN: 9781573661560
Published: Fiction Collective 2 - September 7th, 2010

AM/PM By Amelia Gray Cover Image
$12.95
ISBN: 9780977199273
Availability: Not in Stock. Available to Order.
Published: Featherproof Books - August 1st, 2009