“A Story of Mothers, Monsters, and the Science of Longing” — Read an Excerpt from Kirsten Kaschock’s An Impossibility Of Crows

Now available from University of Massachusetts Press is Kirsten Kaschock’s An Impossibility Of Crows, a novel that “blends gothic horror and literary fiction in a compelling story of mothers, monsters and the science of longing.”

Like Frankenstein, the novel is written in an epistolary form. Says Kaschock: “As a professor of creative writing, learning about early novels has inspired me to look backwards even as I write science-fiction about the now and the future. Many early novels also included different types of writing–they were not so straightforward in their presentation of plot. To tell a life fully, maybe you need various kinds of materials. Also, as a poet, I…