Unruly Creatures

Stories

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories
Cover of the book Unruly Creatures by Jennifer Caloyeras, West Virginia University Press
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Author: Jennifer Caloyeras ISBN: 9781943665792
Publisher: West Virginia University Press Publication: October 1, 2017
Imprint: Vandalia Press Language: English
Author: Jennifer Caloyeras
ISBN: 9781943665792
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Publication: October 1, 2017
Imprint: Vandalia Press
Language: English

Independent Publisher’s Book Awards, Silver Medal, Short Story Fiction

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 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?  
 

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Independent Publisher’s Book Awards, Silver Medal, Short Story Fiction

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 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?  
 

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