Large Animals
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- Paperback published on 06/08/2020
- Page count: 176 pages
- ISBN: 9781916355309
Quick take
In Jess Arndt's bold debut collection, the essence of embodiment takes center stage. With courage, Arndt navigates the blurred boundaries between reality and fantasy, masculinity and femininity, and the tangible and the elusive. Through twelve captivating stories, Arndt delivers a uniquely authentic exploration of identity.
Synopsis
Daring, witty, and strange, the twelve stories in Large Animals confront what it means to have a body. Jess Arndt’s narrators battle with inhabiting a form that makes them feel deeply uncomfortable and detached, constantly challenging the limits of gender and reality. These are stories that rebel against accepted ideas of human identity and present a new normal that is as ambiguous as it is messy. Soupy, visceral, and often disconcerting, Large Animals sets a new standard for language, challenging our concepts of gender and body in a way that feels radical, insightful, and incredibly relevant.
About the author
Jess Arndt is a fiction and transgenre writer living off-the-grid in WA State. Their debut story collection, Large Animals, (Catapult Press, 2017, reprint Cipher Press, UK, 2020), was shortlisted for the California Book Prize and longlisted for The Story Prize
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