# Mad Prairie – Stories and a Novella

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- Authors: [Kate McIntyre](https://www.bookquiver.com/kate-mcintyre)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2021-10-01
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

In this scary, funny, and slyly political short story collection, Kate McIntyre conjures a fever dream of contemporary Kansas. Boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, and grotesque acts birth strange progeny. A mother must choose between her children and her personal safety when her husband steadily excavates a moat around their country home, his very own little border wall. A Kansas politician grapples with international notoriety after an accident traps salt miners hundreds of feet underground—in the same salt mine where his brother was murdered. A bigot’s newly transplanted liver gives him a taste for upbeat 1980s dance tracks while nudging him toward darker plans. And across several stories, we follow Miriam, a young overachiever hell-bent on leaving her home state who is lured back after college to teach elementary school in a rural community. In Culvert, Kansas, Miriam finds closed mouths and big secrets: the toxic waste storage for the battery factory leaches into the soil; the hog farm waste lagoons have sprung leaks; and her students, at turns psychic, lethargic, and aggressive, might not be human.

## Editions

### Mad Prairie – Stories and a Novella

- Publisher: University of Georgia
- ISBN: 978-08-2036-074-4
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2021-10-01
- Language: en_US