title: HANGINGS: THREE NOVELLAS
author:  Nina Shope 
description: Chosen as the best of more than 250 books submitted to our annual blind-judged competition, Nina Shopes debut collection of three novellas demonstrate stunning range and intensity. In the title novella, a young woman learns that her mother is dying and finds herself stalked by nightmarish figures  the hideously transformed maiden, Arachne, an upside-down man in a Miro painting, and the spiders that hatch and haunt the text like tumors  all coinciding with the emergence of her own sexual awareness. With In Urbem, Shope imagines an archetypal ancient city, that city beneath the pavement of all modern cities, in fantastic prose reminiscent of Italo Calvinos Invisible Cities. Finally, Hagiographies explores two intense female friendships, both of which are suddenly and arbitrarily shattered, in a wildly inventive narrative proceeding by means of juxtaposed images rather than sequential events.
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  Copyright © 2018 Tijan
  
  
  ISBN-10: 163576422X
  
  
  ISBN-13: 978-1635764222
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in
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  fiction and any resemblance to any person, living or dead, or any events or
  occurrences, is purely coincidental. The characters and story lines are
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  Proofread by: Kara Hildebrand, Paige Smith, Amy English, and Rochelle Paige
  
  
  Cover designer: Hang Le, [www.byhangle.com](http://www.byhangle.com)
  
  
  Formatting: Elaine York, Allusion Graphics, LLC,
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