ISBN From the Neck Up and Other Stories book English Paperback 320 pages

“Feels like a major collection” – The Washington PostA short fiction collection to stand with Ted Chiang’sExhalationand Kelly Link’sMagic for Beginners.

The new collection of beautiful, strange and disarming short stories from the award-winning author ofThe Beauty,Clarke Award nomineeThe Loosening SkinandThe Arrival of Missives,Aliya Whiteley. In 16 stories Whiteley deftly unpeels the strangeness of everyday life through beguiling gardens, rebellious bodies and journeys across familiar worlds, with her trademark wit and compassion.

Witness the future of farming in a new Ice Age, or the artist bringing life to glass; the many-eyed monsters we carry and the secret cities inside our bodies; the alien invasion through our language to the Chantress and her twists on the fairy tale. Fascinating and always unexpected, Whiteley is unlike any other writer working today.