The following is an excerpt from Wife Shaped Bodies by Laura Cranehill. She is a writer who lives in the Pacific Northwest with her spouse and three children and has had her writing appear in Strange Horizons, Vastarien, ergot., PANK, and multiple award-winning anthologies. This is her first novel.
Wife Shaped Bodies is about an isolated young bride, raised under rigid rules and covered in fungal growths, who begins to unravel both her body and her beliefs after entering a controlling marriage. As she forms a dangerous connection with another woman, she uncovers buried truths about her community and confronts her own autonomy, desire, and transformation. It is now available from Saga Press.
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