Skinwork by Marion Sakaluk

Marion Sakaluk’s debut chapbook Skinwork is a collection of speculative short stories that reinvigorate questions of mind-body dualism, as Sakaluk deftly interrogates the often absurd, often-terrifying psychosomatic aftereffects of encounters with trauma, grief, anger, sadness, and desire. Each fiction creates a plausible world—sometimes dark, sometimes playful, but always original—where readers will immediately recognize the complexities and auguries her characters negotiate as they struggle to define what it means to be embodied amid the monstrous possibilities of the posthuman twenty-first century.