Winner of the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize
Jessica Lee Richardson s debut collection It Had Been Planned and There Were Guides teems with double magic families of spiders, monsters in triplicate, and panels of bleacher-sitting grandfathers (who live in a diaphragm ) cohabitate with a starker, more familiar kind of strange in a hyper real and living tapestry of teenage porn stars, lovelorn factory workers, and art world auctioneers. From a woman who awakes from a short kidnapping with an unquenchable need for risk to a concrete boat ride gone off the...