I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
by Laura van den Berg
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"As
enchanting as fairy tales, as mysterious as dreams, these exquisitely composed
fictions are as urgent and original as any being written today.” —Sigrid Nunez,
author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction
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An
urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg,
author of The Third Hotel
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears,
Laura van den Berg’s first story collection since her acclaimed and
prizewinning Isle of Youth, draws readers into a world of wholly original,
sideways ghost stories that linger in the mouth and mind like rotten, fragrant
fruit. Both timeless and urgent, these eleven stories confront misogyny,
violence, and the impossible economics of America with van den Berg’s trademark
spiky humor and surreal eye. Moving from the peculiarities of Florida to
liminal spaces of travel in Mexico City, Sicily, and Iceland, I Hold a Wolf by
the Ears is uncannily attuned to our current moment, and to the thoughts we
reveal to no one but ourselves.
In “Lizards,” a man mutes his
wife's anxieties by giving her a La Croix–like seltzer laced with sedatives. In
the title story, a woman poses as her more successful sister during a botched
Italian holiday, a choice that brings about strange and violent consequences,
while in “Karolina,” a woman discovers her prickly ex-sister-in-law in the
aftermath of an earthquake and is forced to face the truth about her violent
brother.
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
presents a collection of women on the verge, trying to grasp what’s left of
life: grieving, divorced, and hyperaware, searching, vulnerable, and unhinged,
they exist in a world that deviates from our own only when you look too close.
With remarkable control and transcendent talent, van den Berg dissolves, in the
words of the narrator of “Slumberland," “that border between magic and
annihilation,” and further establishes herself as a defining fiction writer of
our time.
Product
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Print Length : 224 pages
Publisher :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (July 28, 2020)
Publication Date : July 28, 2020
Sold by : Amazon.com Services
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Language : English
ASIN : B07Y73F1XY
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