Kay McKenzie Cooke
The Wandering Nature of Us Girls by Frankie McMillan (Canterbury University Press, 2022), 127pp, $29.99
To read Frankie McMillan’s The Wandering Nature of Us Girls is to read a collection of short fiction about the familiar and the factual constantly being reimagined, or at least given a twist of the fantastic stirred with a swizzle stick. Even before you open the book, the cover’s subtle, sparkly, pleating effect evokes a trick of the light, a puzzling refraction, a sense of things mischievously folded in on themselves. It’s like a warning. Approach this dizzying assortment at your own peril: do not expect any safety net under the flying trapeze acts it performs. [Read more…]