{"product_id":"the-seven-autopsies-of-nora-hanneman-stories-9781573660594","title":"The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe nineteen stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman\u003c\/i\u003e track the splintered trajectory of the title character, tracing a chicken-scratch line of psychosexual development from childhood to old age.?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In unfamiliar and sometimes bizarre narrative turns, the stories in Courtney E. Morgan’s \u003ci\u003eThe Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman\u003c\/i\u003e traverse the gamut of female\/human experience, both grounded in reality and in the irreal. Two schoolgirls culminate their sexual exploration in a surreal act of cannibalism. A sister molds her dead brother’s body into a bird. A woman gives birth to balls of twine and fur (among other things). A sex worker engages a version of herself in a brothel of prostituted body parts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMorgan tears apart a host of archetypes and tropes of femininity—dismembering them, skinning them, and then draping them one by one over her characters like fur coats—revealing them as ill-fitting, sometimes comedic, sometimes monstrous, and always insufficient, masks. Along with these skins of the cultural “feminine,” the collection tries on an array of genres—dissecting, mutating, and breeding them together—from fairy tale to horror, surrealism to confessional (non)fiction, and erotica to (un)creation myth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book weaves around questions of sexuality, identity, and subjectivity. Mutability, instability, and liminality are foregrounded, both in content and form, character and language—blurring the lines between birth and death, death and sex, tugging at the transitional spaces of adolescence and gestation. Even as its treatment is essentialized, gender is muddied and obscured. Morgan shows off her linguistic range in this collection, from sharp-as-nails prose to lyrical moments of poetic reach—probing the extremes of the human condition through both narrative line and language itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman, \u003c\/i\u003eCourtney E. Morgan has designed a map of the female body and a psychosexual journey. Weaving her way through different storytelling modes, including fairy tale and horror, fiction and nonfiction, literal and lyric, these creepy but also vital stories create, decreate, and recreate the skins we live in: language and the body. Breathtakingly.\"\" - Lidia Yuknavitch, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Small Backs of Children\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Chronology of Water: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041444823383,"sku":"9781573660594","price":14.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781573660594.jpg?v=1750950308","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-seven-autopsies-of-nora-hanneman-stories-9781573660594","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}