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urn:uuid:1ebc4e44-344c-42a7-876a-85e2b07a3bec 03 15 9781685712075 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Requiem 1 A01 Teresa Carmody <p>Teresa Carmody (she/they) writes fiction, creative nonfiction, inter-arts collaborations, and hybrid forms. Their books include Maison Femme: a fiction (Bon Aire Projects, 2015), The Reconception of Marie (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020), and A Healthy Interest in the Lives of Others (Autofocus Books, 2025). Their writing was selected for the &amp;NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing (2009) and by Entropy for its Best Online Articles and Essays list of 2019. The Reconception of Marie was also a finalist for the 2020 Big Other Fiction Award and a Reader’s Choice Award. Lucy Ives selected their story “Work Friends, or the Elements of Fiction Make a Story GoGo” as Fugue’s 2024 Prose Contest Runner-Up.</p> 2 A24 David L. Ulin 01 eng 00 74 03 23 Fabulations 10 FIC019000 23 loss 10 FIC029000 23 mourning 23 short stories 23 Midwest 23 family 23 religion 23 United States 23 Michigan 01 06 03 00 <p>Requiem by Teresa Carmody is a "folk opera, a lament for the unexamined life," writes editor and author David Ulin in his Introduction. In this short collection of fiction, a lonely man plainchants for the waitress he once stalked, a sonless father serenades a fatherless son, and a bereft family gathers to bury a parent, providing an aching chorus of what is left. Carmody uses Biblical language to pierce the callous and bruised souls of these lost, and sometimes found, small-town Michiganders. In her raw spare stories, novelist, essayist, and poet Carol Muske-Dukes writes that Carmody creates in her raw, spare stories, “a voice out of the backyard burning bush, a Midwest scriptural mist: frank, fierce and fidgety, and most emphatically her own.”</p> Les Figues 01 punctum books 04 01 20250116 02 WORLD 06 15 9781685712068 06 15 9781685712075 WORLD 09 punctum books 20 01