Tag: Lara Stapleton

  • Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections The New York Times 2021-10-15 Tracy O’Neill THE RUIN OF EVERYTHING By Lara Stapleton 123 pp. Paloma Press. Paper, $18. If love conquers all, in Stapleton’s second story collection it’s not clear then whether anyone wins much of anything from it. There is plenty of sex in this…

  • The Ruin of Everything Paloma Press 2021-10-19 126 pages 5.98 X 9.02 X 0.3 inches 0.43 pounds Paperback ISBN: 978-1734496550 Lara Stapleton The Ruin of Everything tells tales of abandoned children living in adult bodies. Bastards, bi-racial half-siblings, and orphans raised by aunts, they lose their last best love through brokenness like “the impossible loop…

  • At times, my identity feels like an MC Escher lithograph, a thing that cannot be logically coherent as a whole.