Alice Meems
, Butcher Rochelle
, Melissa Poremba
, Aleksandra Sobczak
, Mary Therrien
, Agnes Marshall
, Patricia Johnson
, Heather Sibley
, Barry Kazimer
, Patricia Sampson
, cassandra schiemann
, Anne Baldo
, Sarah Schwartz
, Shashi Bhat
, P. Thompson
, Joshua Lewis
, Marilyn Stanley
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Dawn Macdonald
, Emma Parker
, Jude Castillo
, Wiley Ho
, Coleen Zebeluk
, Tyra Antle
, Noelle Walsh
, Sandra Perry
, Gabrielle Ayotte
, Linda Leitch
, Hoda Montazeri
, Andrea Pole
, Natasa Ilic
, Cathalynn Labonte-Smith
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Rose Ghaedi
, Susan Jang
, Christopher Evans
, Teree Hokanson
, Andrea Gillespie
, Hailey Slaviero
, Deb Philippon
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Janai Phillips
, Deana Bueley
, Elaine Baptie
, Katherine Koller
, Chris Carvalho
, Dani Kat
, Claudie Léveillé
, Connie Bennett
, Claire Gear
, Cristina Pejkovic
, Trish Bowering
, Maria Mclean
, Rhona Brinkman
, Astrid Blodgett
, Diane Normandin
, Lynn Bechtel
, Janet Miller
, Jenna Lyn Albert
, Karen Kendrick
, Christine Lion
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Benita Hartwell
, Shonna Froebel
, Randi Ann Doll
, Susan Terendy
, Rachel Edmonds
, Janet Meisner
, Paula Adam
, Nancy Daoust
, Robert Hykawy
, jane luce
, C. Ray
, Derek Davidson
, Janice Cournoyer
, Shannon Lee
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Nancy Reid
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Kim Cappellina
, Ken Gilmour
, Sara Conway
, Kym Marsh
, Karen Nordrum
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Alex Henderson
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Pamela Bruce
, Mary Danieli
, Prabh Toor
, Lisa Mallia
, Virginia Reddin
, norma haill
, Dorianne Emmerton
, Joe Mitchell
A refreshingly original debut collection of short stories that grapple with the self-alienation and self-discovery that make us human.
For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore comes a striking debut collection of short stories that explore bodies both human and animal: our fascination with their strange effluences, growths, and protrusions, and the dangerous ways we play with their power to inflict harm on ourselves and on others.
Throughout The Whole Animal, flawed characters wrestle with the complexities of relationships with partners, parents, children, and friends as they struggle to find identity, belonging, and autonomy. Bodies are divided, often elusive, even grotesque. In "Porcelain Legs," a pre-teen fixes on the long, thick hair growing from her mother's eyelid. In "Wolf-Boy Saturday," a linguist grasps for connection with a young boy whose negligent upbringing has left him unable to speak. In "Butter Buns," a college student sees his mother in a new light when she takes up bodybuilding.
With strange juxtapositions, beguiling dark humour, and lurid imagery, The Whole Animal illuminates the everyday experiences of loneliness and loss, of self-alienation and self-discovery, that make us human.
