Breakable Things

By Cassandra Khaw,

Book cover of Breakable Things

Book description

Cassandra Khaw's dynamic and vibrant debut collection, Breakable Things, explores the fragile and nebulous bonds that weave love and grief into our existence. This exquisite and cutting collection of stories showcases a bloody fusion of horrors from cosmic to psychological to body traumas.
“Khaw (Nothing but Blackened Teeth) packs a…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Breakable Things as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This collection of short stories spans Khaw's early career. You can see them learning how to a write a short story. The early work is mostly "vibes," dark and romantic and melancholy and rageful. The later work is fully realized, ambitious, nuanced. It's all worth reading. All of it. Khaw's language is deeply interesting. It's visceral. It feels everything. It's also horror, so... CW for guts.

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