Eco fabulism, magic realism, just a bit strange, just a bit off. Ezra Pound said, "Make it new." If character is destiny, then destiny is necessarily odd.
Julia Slavin is the author of The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club and Other Stories, the novel Carnivore Diet, and a new collection, Stories for Squatters. She is at work on a novel.