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KODI SCHEER TALKS 'INCENDIARY GIRLS:' FICTION, MEDICINE, AND AN EAR IN A LAUNDRY HAMPER
Bustle Magazine
6 May 2014
By Claire Luchette
A severed ear in a laundry hamper, a mother reincarnated as a horse,
a boyfriend who has turned into a camel -- these are the weird
and surprisingly poignant images that make Kodi Scheer's stories
unforgettable. Incendiary Girls (New Harvest), Scheer's debut
collection of stories, contains 11 tales that explore the absurdity
of having a human body and its relationship with the spirit. There's
"No Monsters Here," in which the worried wife of a soldier finds his
body parts strewn in random spots in her house. In "Transplant,"
Angela wakes up with a donor's heart with different skin and hair
and spiritual inclinations. And in the title story set during the
Armenian genocide, an unorthodox angel watches Vartouhi, a girl who
escapes death.
Scheer's stories examine our states of nature through the lens of
the supernatural, the spiritual, and the strange. Her protagonists
encounter pain and possibility, and Scheer presents their realities
with poise. Scheer discussed the overlap of fiction and medicine,
her work as a writer-in-residence at the Michigan Cancer Institute,
and how weird reality can be.
Read the interview at
http://www.bustle.com/articles/23360-kodi-scheer-talks-incendiary-girls-fiction-medicine-and-an-ear-in-a-laundry-hamper
Bustle Magazine
6 May 2014
By Claire Luchette
A severed ear in a laundry hamper, a mother reincarnated as a horse,
a boyfriend who has turned into a camel -- these are the weird
and surprisingly poignant images that make Kodi Scheer's stories
unforgettable. Incendiary Girls (New Harvest), Scheer's debut
collection of stories, contains 11 tales that explore the absurdity
of having a human body and its relationship with the spirit. There's
"No Monsters Here," in which the worried wife of a soldier finds his
body parts strewn in random spots in her house. In "Transplant,"
Angela wakes up with a donor's heart with different skin and hair
and spiritual inclinations. And in the title story set during the
Armenian genocide, an unorthodox angel watches Vartouhi, a girl who
escapes death.
Scheer's stories examine our states of nature through the lens of
the supernatural, the spiritual, and the strange. Her protagonists
encounter pain and possibility, and Scheer presents their realities
with poise. Scheer discussed the overlap of fiction and medicine,
her work as a writer-in-residence at the Michigan Cancer Institute,
and how weird reality can be.
Read the interview at
http://www.bustle.com/articles/23360-kodi-scheer-talks-incendiary-girls-fiction-medicine-and-an-ear-in-a-laundry-hamper