Householders - Kate Cayley - Bog

Editorial comps/influences include Tessa Hadley's Bad Dreams and Other Stories, Yiyun Li's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, and Deborah Willis' Vanishing and other stories, along with the work of Alice Munro and Barbara Gowdy. Cayley is similarly interested in how domestic or private space brushes up against the public and political.
Contemporary themes/interests: queer domesticity, gentrification, and religious extremism, partiularly faith-based utopian experiments. Cayley is also interested in borders/borderlands: stories in Householders travel across national borders, exploring the shared experiences of North Americans
Cayley has been shortlisted for numerous Canadian awards across mulitple genres, including the K. M. Hunter Award for Literature in, the CBC Short Story Prize, the ReLit Award for Short Fiction in 2015, and the Governor General's Award for Fiction.
Blurbs expected from Souvankham Thammavongsa, David Bergen, Madeleine Thien.