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The line between human and animal is thinner than you think.
In a striking first collection of stories, Cris Mazza brings a startling vision to the familiar terrain of intimate relationships. The eleven stories in Animal Acts describe characters navigating an unsteady course through the turbulence of sexial desire. Set in unmistakably American landscapes—from sprawling West Coast cities to the dry, dusty scrub of rural Southern California—the work is populated by gym teachers, aging flower children, secretaries and artists—most of them strong, willful women.
The narrator of the title story holds the guests at a party spellbound with her fantastic retelling of another woman's perverse life—which may, in fact, be her own—thereby seducing a man who has previously eluded her.
Mazza's arresting narrative structures and sharp sense of the absurd make for a dazzling debut collection.
Contents
At the Meat Counter
Dead Dog
Erasable Ink
At Least He Didn't Play a Tuba
Piano Lessons
Animals Don't Think About It
Making Things Happen
Nervous Dog
The Dove Hunters
Shut Up
From Hunger
Animal Acts
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