Here Be Icebergs by Katya Adaui Groundswell Speaker 2024 Gushing blood

Gushing blood

she grows apart from her sisters

diary-rich dishes with the north

Why then do we also hear the misogynistic refrain that women 'belong in the kitchen' if

easy explanations are offered

Here Be Icebergs by Katya Adaui Groundswell Speaker 2024 Gushing bloodThe weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other. The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories. A family is haunted by a beast that splatters fruit against its walls every night, another undergoes a near collision with a bus on the way home from the beach.