Goblin Mode - Caroline Hagood
Product Details:
Paperback : 184 Pages
ISBN : 9781951631499
Cover design: Gwen Grafft
About the Book:
A must-read for fans of Kelly Link, Jenny Offill, and Maggie Nelson.
With the fearlessness and inventive wit of Rachel Yoder's Nightbitch, Goblin Mode explores the wild, surreal experience of being a woman, writer, and mother in a world that's on fire.
What if there were all the daily difficulties of modern life plus a goblin?
In Caroline Hagood' s GOBLIN MODE: A SPECULATIVE MEMOIR, the protagonist, who is and is not Caroline Hagood, takes a surreal odyssey through humor, horror, and plague-time Brooklyn. In a supercharged three-day stretch, she navigates a city full of flashers and parrots who talk to her on subways, makes an ominous visit to a bioluminescent bay in Fajardo, Puerto Rico at Christmastime, mothers two spirited children in an apartment that' s probably haunted, and lives in a world that may or may not be about to shut down. This state of goblin mode that she inhabits is metaphorical, said to have taken root since Covid and all the other sociopolitical unrest. But it' s also very real, in the form of an actual goblin that has been following her around since childhood, daring her to live more fiercely...
About the Author:
Caroline Hagood is the author of the poetry books, Lunatic Speaks (FutureCycle Press, 2012) and Making Maxine's Baby (Hanging Loose Press, 2015); the creative nonfiction books, Ways of Looking at a Woman (Hanging Loose Press, 2019) and Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022); and the novels, Ghosts of America (Hanging Loose Press, 2021) and Filthy Creation (MadHat Press 2023). Her book, Death and Other Speculative Fictions: An Essay in Prose Poems, is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press in January 2025. Her book, Women of Fantasy in Their Own Words: Conversations with Contemporary Authors, edited with Sébastien Doubinsky, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in December 2025. She lives in Brooklyn with her family and spends most of her time trying to get them to read weird books. Find her at carolinehagood.com.
“Profoundly unique and honest...somehow executed with an astonishing lack of ego. Hagood will break your heart with her naked sincerity; a masterful, singular writer who sheds light with every page.”