"uperb.A bold, exhilarating display of talent." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Folk impresses with her imagination as well as her insights." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Folk debuts with a wonderful absurdist collection that explores the vagaries of human connections.The whole perfectly balances compassion and caustics, and the author has an easy hand blending everyday terror with the humor that helps people swallow it. Each story beats with its own fierce heart, and together they herald an exciting new arrival in the tradition of speculative literary fiction. Prescient and wildly imaginative, Out There depicts an uncanny landscape that holds a mirror to our subconscious fears and desires. Meanwhile, in a poignant companion piece, a woman and a blot forge a genuine, albeit doomed, connection.
And in the title story, originally published in the New Yorker, a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by "blots," preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data. A man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, forcing Earth's remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity. A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk's debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life, " if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirror" (Chang-Rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad).
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