Aprille Clarke
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What do a time-stopping office worker, a woman receiving a full body transplant, a visitor from the nineteenth century, and dead people preserved in ice trays have to do with each other? They all inhabit the weird, fantastic, and sometimes disturbing world of The Case of Elena and All That Went Wrong. Interlocking stories form a narrative that explores the nature of friendship, love, and identity with a paranormal twist.
Aprille Clarke's debut novel crafts magical realist tales of human relationships with humor and insight. In the vein of the classic Simpsons episode 22 Short Films about Springfield, as well as Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, overlapping characters and plotlines weave to create a satisfying experience for the reader. Open these pages and find the answers. Allow yourself to explore the lives of these characters and be drawn into their shared reality. For all its wonders, it is a world very much like our own.
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Ice cube trays full of dead people take up a lot of freezer space. Elena wished they weren't in there, partly because there was no room for her frozen pizza, and partly because her roommate's boyfriend once accidentally popped Robert F. Kennedy into a glass and poured Coke over him.