Three States of Rice, award-winning writer Gayle Brandeis' first collection of stories, explores the strange, tender, and often unruly ways people move through the world. These pieces slip between the everyday and the uncanny - a marriage unsettled by a tree, a mother wrestling with desire she can't name, a support group for people whose skin has turned blue. The settings shift-Bali, a quiet Midwestern kitchen, the interior rooms we don't talk about-but the emotional terrain stays sharp and alive.
Each story sits at the intersection of longing and transformation, tracing the small ruptures that change how we see ourselves and the people we love. With a mix of grounded realism and just-tilted-enough strangeness, Three States of Rice invites readers into the beauty, absurdity, and rawness of being human.
Genre: General Fiction
Each story sits at the intersection of longing and transformation, tracing the small ruptures that change how we see ourselves and the people we love. With a mix of grounded realism and just-tilted-enough strangeness, Three States of Rice invites readers into the beauty, absurdity, and rawness of being human.
Genre: General Fiction