Funny, fantastic and weird books with Laurie Foos

Laurie Foos is the author of seven novels and
novellas. In her own words, Laurie's books “push the limits of
reality, to make things seem absurd and grotesque in order for
the reader to see things in a new way.” For example, in Ex
Utero a woman loses her uterus in a shopping mall. In The
Blue Girl, the lives of three sets of mothers and daughters
are overshadowed by the appearance of a blue girl, to whom the
mothers feed moon pies in secret.


Her work has been categorized as fabulist and magical realism
while addressing issues of family, suburban malaise, and the role
of women. She's also delving into realistic fiction with
Toast, a novella about a child with autism and his sister,
insipred by her own family.


Laurie teaches in the Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing
program and speaks with Georgia Sparling in this interview.


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