In the spirit of Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties, Nino Cipri delivers a collection of surreal short stories spotlighting queer and transgender characters.

*Author tour in Kansas, Colorado, Illinois, New England, and elsewhere including potential appearances at The Raven Bookstore, Women and Children First, Tattered Cover, The Book Table, and Room of One's Own *Advance copies available in the ABA galley room at BookExpo *Seeking reviews, interviews, and other coverage from Bookforum, Vulture, Buzzfeed, Nylon, The Village Voice, The Millions, Vox, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Book Riot, Paris Review, Electric Lit, PopSugar, The Riveter, Hazlitt, Fiction Unbound, SFWA, Bitch Magazine, Pure Wow, and more *Outreach to queer readers and publications, especially Lambda Literary, them., Autostraddle, and Bogi Reads the World *Coverage through outlets where the author has connections, including Book Smugglers, Apex Magazine, Locus, Lightspeed, the Barnes & Noble SFF blog, NPR, New York Times “OtherWorldly” book column, Cascadian Subduction Zone, and Strange Horizons *Timed publication of excerpts, essays, and features *Mass galley mailing to trade publications and national newspapers *Advertising Budget Available *Co-op Budget Available *Major national awards push, including the Lambda Awards, Tiptree Award, World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, Hugo and Nebula Awards, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction *Egalleys available on Edelweiss

Shirley Jackson Award finalist World Fantasy Award finalist Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme of home and our estrangement from it, and what happens when the familiar suddenly shifts into the uncanny. In stories that foreground queer relationships and transgender or nonbinary characters, Cipri delivers the origin story for a superhero team comprised of murdered girls; a housecleaner discovering an impossible ocean in her least-favorite clients’ house; a man haunted by keys that appear suddenly in his throat; and a team of scientists and activists discovering the remains of a long-extinct species of intelligent weasels. In the spirit of Laura van den Berg, Emily Geminder, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, and other winners of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, Nino Cipri’s debut collection announces the arrival of a brilliant and wonderfully unpredictable writer with a gift for turning the short story on its ear.