Eugenie Montague's short fiction has been published by NPR; Amazon; Faultline; Mid-American Review; Fiction Southeast and Flash Friday, a flash fiction series from Tin House and the Guardian Books Network. Her piece "Breakfast" was selected by Amy Hempel for inclusion in The Best Small Fictions 2017. Her hybrid work, Treating Attachment Disorder, won Eggtooth Editions' 2016 chapbook contest. She earned her MFA from the University of California, Irvine and lives in El Paso, Texas.
Montague's debut novel is Swallow the Ghost.
At CrimeReads she tagged seven favorite antidetective novels, including:
The Taiga Sydrome, by Cristina Rivera GarzaRead about the other entries on the list.
A woman (an ex-detective with many failures) is hired by a man to find his lover who abandoned him, fleeing with another into the “taiga,” a hostile forest at theends of the earth. The detective and her translator arrive in the taiga, where they meet a wolf, a feral child, a capitalist, and a group of lumberjacks. Part detective story, part fairy tale, part a thing only CRG could think up, The Taiga Syndrome is an affecting book about the end of love and contains some of my favorite sentences (as translated by Jill Levine and Aviva Kana): “Look at this: your knees. They are used for kneeling upon reality and also crawling, terrified.” (Lydia Davis’ The End of the Story is a different kind of antidetective about the end of a relationship, I would argue, and I would recommend).
--Marshal Zeringue
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