Description
"In this collection rife with humor and pathos, alienated characters struggle to subvert, contain, control, and even escape their bodies. A teenage girl grapples with pubic hair grown wild, a biologist finds herself in love with a gorilla, a transvestite prisoner yearns to escape her biological destiny. In some stories, the bodies have surrogates: a high-school girl babysits an elderly woman's plastic doll while negotiating her own sexual awakening, and a young man finds that he can only receive affection from his father when he is in costume. Dark humor and magical realism put in sharp relief the everyday trials of Americans in a story collection that asks, in what way are we more than the sum of our parts?"--
Author: Jennifer Caloyeras
Publisher: Vandalia Press
Published: 10/01/2017
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781943665785
ISBN10: 1943665788
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
Author: Jennifer Caloyeras
Publisher: Vandalia Press
Published: 10/01/2017
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781943665785
ISBN10: 1943665788
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
About the Author
Jennifer Caloyeras is the author of Strays. Her short stories have appeared in Booth, Storm Cellar, and other literary magazines. She recently served as the artist-in-residence at the Annenberg in Santa Monica and teaches writing at the the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.