Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids: Stories Audiobook

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• Leyna Krow’s Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids is a stunning collection that transforms the mundane into the magical. Each story brims with wonder and the surreal, pushing the boundaries of reality while plunging the reader deep into human emotions. Krow, a masterful storyteller, captures the bizarre and beautiful in equal measure, making this collection both riveting and unforgettable. Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids is a dazzling testament to Krow’s talent, offering readers not just a captivating journey into the unknown, but a brilliant return to our everyday lives forever marked by what we had witnessed.

  — Morgan Talty, national bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez and Fire Exit: A Novel

• This book doesn’t just entertain—it explodes. Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids balances unearthly happenings with those concretely upon us. Krow deftly pulls readers into her tilted universe through the veneer of domesticity. Once there, we are haunted by something far more absurd than babies who become men in nine weeks and supplements that turn women into werewolves—a natural world that cries for our attention and goes unheard. Krow writes with both a masterful weirdness and the wise compassion of a human who loves our beautiful Earth.

  — Emily Habeck, national bestselling author of Shark Heart: A Love Story

• A gorgeous book that also serves as a series of unanswerable, probing questions: how did we get here? how will we move forward? can we still love, despite the wreckage? This is devastating work, and I mean that as a compliment. Very rarely have I come across a set of stories so genuinely moving. A searing collection that attempts to place the world delicately in our fumbling, undeserving hands.

  — Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth

• Leyna Krow's Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids is beguiling and beautiful, funny and poignant, and mesmerizing at every turn. These strange stories have a delightful wildness about them: they turn our everyday world askew so as to reveal complicated truths beneath the surface. Leyna Krow is the perfect storyteller for this moment, for she so deftly captures the brutality and absurdity of living in what often feels like the end of the world.

  — Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of California

• A gorgeous book that also serves as a series of unanswerable, probing questions: How did we get here? How will we move forward? Can we still love, despite the wreckage? This is devastating work, and I mean that as a compliment. Very rarely have I come across a set of stories so genuinely moving. A searing collection that attempts to place the world delicately in our fumbling, undeserving hands.

  — Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth

• In this trenchant collection from Krow, uncanny moments punctuate the characters’ day-to-day realities. . . . In ‘A Plan to Save Us All,’ a series of time travelers descend upon a Pacific Northwest suburb to warn residents of a deadly pathogen that will wipe them all out, but the time travelers turn out to be more interested in getting laid than stopping the virus, and the narrator has sex with many of them. In ‘Ultraboost Supplements for Good Health,’ a group of women agree to test a vitamin one of them has developed, causing them to turn on their husbands, menstruate uncontrollably, and possibly turn into werewolves. Krow’s bracing and curious stories reveal what gets lost in the quest for perfection.

  — Publishers Weekly

• Krow explores forest fires, volcanoes, time travel, and the lives of octopuses with verve and wit. . . . Even in the midst of familial or environmental tragedies, Krow’s prose maintains a playful spirit.

  — Kirkus Reviews