"Surfaces deceive. LeBlanc's deliciously creepy stories revel in pushing past the limitations of the body, of the domestic, and of the known even when this means guts are going to spill. In the tradition of writers such as Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Lisa Tuttle, these stories disorient and slide from the familiar and dreamy and into the nightmarish in the most thrilling of ways. LeBlanc kidnaps the reader and takes them on an unforgettable, screamingly great ride." - Suzette Mayr, Giller Prize winning author of The Sleeping Car Porter "Amy LeBlanc's Homebodies is like a slow, sliding kaleidoscope of dreams. A series of glimpses into strained, disjointed families and communities, the book follows a network of disquieting characters with wounds--both figurative and very literal--that fester and pulse. The stories feel like admissions, like muffled secrets passed behind closed doors. They are fragmented but nonetheless full--dense and swollen with the characters' blunted fears, their stark needs.

LeBlanc's writing is a shudder running through the body: a sensation that is visceral, reflexive, and inescapable. Like a boa snake constricting, like peristalsis, these stories will swallow you whole." - Erica McKeen, author of Tear "Amy LeBlanc's uncanny, open-ended stories perfectly capture the ambiguous anxieties of our pandemic times. This is an engrossing, contemporary, well-arranged collection with novelistic immersiveness." - Seyward Goodhand, author of Even That Wildest Hope "The best word to describe each story in this collection: unnerving." -- Anne Logan, I've Read This "Homebodies will leave readers entertained and enlightened--and maybe a little terrified." -- Literary Review of Canada "Unsettling and creepy." -- CBC Weekend Morning Show "LeBlanc surprises and disturbs, to the reader's intense anguish - in this collection's case, a good thing.

" -- Winnipeg Free Press "Original, inherently fascinating, and with a narrative storytelling style that is ideal for Gothic fiction and the short story format. a highly recommended pick." -- Midwest Book Review "Homebodies is about the living who are isolated, the deceased who infiltrate our quotidian realms, and all those lacunas that quiver between -- uncanny and sometimes welcome spectres of love." -- Alberta Views.