Someone at a party describes you as an “indoor kind of girl.” What does that even mean? You don’t know, but you spend the following week obsessing about it. You watch three seasons of Keeping Up with the Kardashians in two days. You get a pet turtle. You absent-mindedly paint what ends up looking like your high school’s football coach, but naked. You go backpacking in Australia for a few months. You try speaking with a New York accent in public, just to see if people like that version of you better. The comment still haunts you. An “indoor kind of girl.” You feel like you’re that person, but you’re not that person.

In Frankie Barnet’s exquisite and funny debut collection of stories, characters stumble through their daily existence, frequently feeling confused, rejected, bored, disillusioned or misunderstood. Metatron is proud to present these five stunningly imaginative tales, which signal the arrival of a gifted writer.

Frankie Barnet is a Montreal-based writer. Her work has appeared in publications such as Joyland, Lemonhound and Papirmasse, and she is the author of the 2012 chapbook Something Disgusting Happening. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at Concordia University and currently pursuing her MFA at Syracruse University.

First edition, third printing
72 pages
Perfect-bound
Cover art | Louise Reimer
ISBN | 978-0-9939464-9-3
French Translation | Fille d'intérieur | Available via Les éditions de ta mère

Press

BESTSELLER | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly | Fiction Bestsellers 2017

ANTHOLOGIZED | Cherry Sun, a story from An Indoor Kind of Girl, was republished in Best Canadian Stories

BESTSELLER | #1 on National Post Books‘ best-seller list for fiction

REVIEW | Rookie Mag | "In a slight 68 pages, the stories cover turtle infestations, hallucinogenic visits from a baby given up for adoption, the politics of mural painting, and intimate relations between zookeepers. The collection creates a world that is totally captivating and enchanting, and that is completely Barnet’s."

REVIEW | The Winnipeg Review | “This is the millennial experience distilled into literary form.”

REVIEW | The Walrus | “Hard to put down.”

REVIEW | Drawn & Quarterly | “Barnet has the dark sense of humor of George Saunders mixed with the bizarre attraction of Miranda July.”

INTERVIEW | Cosmonauts Avenue | Tiny Spills | Frankie Barnet

INTERVIEW | Maudlin House | Exploring Stories & Friendship with Frankie Barnet

EXCERPT | Peach Mag | A Plot of Ocean

EXCERPT | Matrix Magazine | It Is Often The Beautiful Ones You Have To Watch Out For

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