Overview
""A sexy, gay ghost story that can be read in one delicious sitting."" -NBC News Right before meeting her girlfriend Amber's parents for the first time, the unnamed narrator of Helen House learns that she and her partner share a similar trauma: both of their sisters are dead. As the narrator wonders what else Amber has been hiding, she struggles with her own secret--using sex as a coping mechanism--as well as confusion and guilt over whether she really cares about Amber, or if she's only using her for sex. When they arrive at the parents' rural upstate home, a quaint but awkward first meeting unravels into a nightmare in which the narrator finds herself stranded in a family's decades-long mourning ritual. At turns terrifying and erotic, Helen House is a queer ghost story about trauma and grief.
Full Product Details
Author: Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
Publisher: Burrow Press
Imprint: Burrow Press
Dimensions:
Width: 10.20cm
, Height: 0.50cm
, Length: 15.20cm
Weight: 0.064kg
ISBN: 9781941681282
ISBN 10: 194168128
Pages: 74
Publication Date: 12 September 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""A sexy, gay ghost story that can be read in one delicious sitting."" -NBC News ""Readers will find themselves guessing what the hell is going on in this otherwise familiar-feeling story of modern love, making the eerie bits feel all the more haunting. Recommended for fans of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, Megan Milks, and Lydia Conklin."" -The Lesbrary ""How well can we ever know the people we love? Are there limits to healthy affection? Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya makes literal in her fiction the questions we might be afraid to ask. Helen House is a sexy and thrilling ghost story, confronting our most intimate forms of haunting."" -Chicago Review of Books"
""A sexy, gay ghost story that can be read in one delicious sitting."" -NBC News ""Readers will find themselves guessing what the hell is going on in this otherwise familiar-feeling story of modern love, making the eerie bits feel all the more haunting. Recommended for fans of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, Megan Milks, and Lydia Conklin."" -The Lesbrary ""How well can we ever know the people we love? Are there limits to healthy affection? Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya makes literal in her fiction the questions we might be afraid to ask. Helen House is a sexy and thrilling ghost story, confronting our most intimate forms of haunting."" -Chicago Review of Books
Author Information
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is a lesbian writer of short fiction, essays, and pop culture criticism living in Florida. She is the managing editor of Autostraddle and the assistant managing editor of TriQuarterly. Her work appears in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, The Rumpus, Joyland, Vice, Vulture, and others. She was a 2021 nonfiction fellow for Lambda Literary's Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. Helen House is her first book.
