Anatomical Gift, Short Fiction
“A skeptical, potty-mouthed Snow White. A Hungarian nude model who debates consciousness. A clerk in a gun shop run by a jerk named Jesus. A respite caregiver looking for change. The characters in Virginia Konchan's Anatomical Gift pop off the page and onto the barstool next to us to give us the rough wisdom we need.”
—Daniel Nester
“Philosophical, funny, and devastating . . . Konchan’s narrators want to know nothing less than the nature of reality itself. Konchan’s characters never stop questioning, and reading their pursuit for answers is a sheer delight thanks to the force of Konchan’s imagination, humor, and intelligence. Anatomical Gift is a stunning debut by a gifted writer.”
—Alyse Knorr
“Hilariously transgressive and linguistically deft, Virginia Konchan’s Anatomical Gift stages worlds in which truth-speaking narrators confront our embattled now.”
—Varley O’Connor
“Heir to Jane Bowles, heir to Donald Barthelme, heir to the Decadents and the Symbolists, Virginia Konchan is one of the few new writers whom I trust.”
—AD Jameson
Review by Alyse Knorr in Southeast Review
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