Island Rule, Katie M. Flynn
Island Rule, Katie M. Flynn
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Island Rule
Stories

Author: Katie M. Flynn

Narrator: Carlotta Brentan, Corey Brill, Erin deWard, Kitty Hendrix, Jensen Olaya, Joy Osmanski, Devon Sorvari, Emily Tremaine, Kimberly Woods

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2024


Synopsis

From the author of the “urgent and heartfelt” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel The Companions, a genre-bending collection of interconnected short stories in the tradition of Jennifer Egan and Karen Russell.

An angry mother turns into a literal monster. A company in San Francisco can scrub your entire reputation and create a new one…for a price. A failed actor on a reality show turns into an unlikely world savior. And much more.

Through each of these twelve interconnected stories, people, places, and even realities are masterfully blended. “Funny, tender, and compulsively readable, Katie Flynn’s warmhearted collection is an absolute gem, with an enormous generosity of spirit and keen wit on display in every line” (Maryse Meijer, author of Rag).

About Katie M. Flynn

Katie M. Flynn is a writer, editor, and educator based in San Francisco. Her short fiction has appeared in the San Francisco ChronicleTin House, and Tor, among other publications. She has been awarded Colorado Review’s Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction, a fellowship from the San Francisco Writers Grotto, and the Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing. Katie holds an MFA from the University of San Francisco and an MA in geography from UCLA. Her first novel, The Companions, was published in 2020. Follow her on Instagram @Katie_M_Flynn or visit her website KatieMFlynn.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott

I’ll preface this review by saying that I received Katie M. Flynn’s book “Island Rule” as a giveaway from Goodreads and Scout Press. Thanks to both for the free copy. Let’s talk about world-building. A good storyteller can create an entire world (or worlds) that immerses the reader and helps suspend......more

There are 12 amazing, breath-taking, unique interconnected stories in this collection. Only 12, yet I felt like I was fully immersed in a world created by Katie M. Flynn. I love interconnected stories - a book that makes you work a bit, keep track and remember each story and this book went above and......more

Goodreads review by Linty

- twelve interconnected short stories centered around a world that is like ours with some gently surrealist twists - some are set in the past, some in the present day, and some in the not-too-distant future - general themes throughout of motherhood/expectations of women and clinging to normalcy in the......more

Goodreads review by Kayla

I just was not overly enthused by any of the stories in this book. It was hard to really care about this world that Flynn was building, as the short stories are interconnected. Yet often this connection was hard to grasp. It was also just generally frustrating that I often had no idea when or where......more