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A Strange Object

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A baby is born with gills.  Foxes raise and then lose a human child.  A man, in the final throes of his deathbed fever dream, experiences a cross-Antarctic voyage.  In each of the finely tuned and deeply affecting stories collected in Farthest South, parental bonds and the possibilities of family happiness are tested, and commingle with something darker.  These are narratives of familial love and tenderness, sung in an anxious and thrilling key.

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“Ethan Rutherford is one of our great artists of catastrophe. Drawing on landscapes both mythic—the fairytale, the ghost story—and domestic, this collection illuminates terrors that feel at once prescient and eternal. Farthest South is a masterpiece.”

Laura van den Berg, author of I Hold A Wolf by the Ears and The Third Hotel

Interior Illustrations by Anders Nilsen