Gliff - Ali Smith Mudpuppy Not only is this embarrassing

Not only is this embarrassing (why do the gods keep losing their magical items

the monstrous goblins 'jikininki' or the faceless 'mujina' who stalk lonely neighbourhoods - and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power

He's watching them and he knows exactly who they are

but there's a wide world outside

'I come from Des Moines

Gliff - Ali Smith Mudpuppy Not only is this embarrassingThe first of two novels, Gliff, which is a Scottish northern word for a shock, a fright, a transient moment, a glance or sudden glimpse, will be followed by a second novel in 2025, called Glyph (a signifying mark as in hieroglyph). Glyph, the second novel, will tell a story which is hidden in the first so the two books will belong together but can be read independently. The two books will form a new step in Alis writing journey, different in form and