Chronicles of an Impossibility

Chronicles of an Impossibility by acclaimed Italian author Mia Lecomte is a stunning collection of short speculative fiction that challenges conventional boundaries of realism, gender, and identity. Translated into English with lyrical sensitivity by Johanna Bishop and Brenda Porster, these stories unfold like whispered riddles—intimate, surreal, and quietly explosive. Each story in this collection reveals a fractured reality: a mother witnessing the disintegration of her identity through her daughter’s ageing, a character who considers re-entering life by choice, and authors who vanish into their own inventions. These characters exist in a liminal world where nothing is fixed—not the body, not memory, not even the act of storytelling itself. Lecomte’s writing is minimalist and poetic, saturated with symbolism and nuance. Her exploration of womanhood, psychological solitude, and the alienation of everyday life resonates across cultures. She invites the reader into a space where logic softens, emotional truths emerge, and identity is fluid and ever-shifting. A masterful work of translated feminist literature, Chronicles of an Impossibility is a must-read for lovers of experimental fiction, lyrical short stories, and international voices that disrupt the familiar. It is a book that asks not to be understood, but to be felt.