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Echolocation And Other Stories

Publisher: Independently Published
Book type: Short Story Collection
Age: Adult
Genre: Contemporary · LGBT
Sub Genre: Coming of Age
Language: English
“This book is a super enjoyable and relatable. Anyone will appreciate these coming of age stories, but if you grew up in a chaos or are now an adult who was parentified in childhood, these stories will feel like home. I really appreciated the vulnerability and earnestness of the collection. Lots of laugh out loud moments. Easy to recommend. You will enjoy.”
– Lyneah via Amazon
It’s hard being the kid who moves every few years. Combine that with a dysfunctional home, natural disaster, and parentification. It’s up to Sarah to invent out of chaos. She hurls herself into overdue library books, googly-eyed alter egos, rock bands in dusty basements, mountain trails, and most confusingly, love.

Echolocation is a collection of stories inspired by true events, following a young girl from Chicagoland who dreams of being a dolphin trainer but becomes a writer who sorts through chicken scratch and cobbled-together collages to form a narrative that is uniquely and emotionally hers. Stories touch on themes like parent-child role reversal, sibling relationships, sexual exploration, creative growth, spiritual re-evaluation, and other forms of identity questioning. It will appeal to anyone carving a space for themselves during hard times but especially to those who lived a 90s childhood marked by the Mario games and who joined the workforce post 2008’s economic disaster. The last story ends with the quarantine lockdown of COVID-19. Sarah moves again, this time away from everything she knows – to embark on the dirty journey of age 30.

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