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Patron Saints of Roadkill and other stories
Brief Description
A ghost moves into a woman's apartment and begins to cough up teeth. A town keeps building as the sea prepares to take it back. A daughter inherits hunger like an heirloom. In this collection of short stories set along a shifting coastline, the boundaries between...
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Patron Saints of Roadkill is a darkly tender collection, revealing a world where the familiar is made strange and the strange is given its rightful place in the landscape of things.
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Description
A ghost moves into a woman's apartment and begins to cough up teeth. A town keeps building as the sea prepares to take it back. A daughter inherits hunger like an heirloom.
In this collection of short stories set along a shifting coastline, the boundaries between body and memory, human and nonhuman, landscape and ocean begin to slip and strain. Houses tilt, animals and ghosts press in, and what is carried—grief, desire, damage—refuses to stay contained.
Patron Saints of Roadkill is a darkly tender collection, revealing a world where the familiar is made strange and the strange is given its rightful place in the landscape of things.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781067096663
Publisher: The Cuba Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 August 2026
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: The Cuba Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 186
About the Author
Susanna Elliffe is a fiction writer based in Oamaru. She was the 2025 winner of the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize with her debut short story collection, and her short stories have been recognised in national and international competitions including the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition, the Bridport Prize, the Hope Prize and the Sargeson Prize. When not writing, Susanna can be found on stage or adding to her collection of degrees.
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