A housewife with a ravenous lust for the adolescent boy who mows her lawn swallows him whole. A woman nonchalantly hacks off her leg at a posh private club. A father baby proofs his house so thoroughly he never sees his wife and child. And a businessman passing through an airport risks it all to save a giant lobster from death.
"A wild imagination fused with airtight logic yields truly inventive stories that begin where fantasy and normalcy cross. . . . . Brisk, funny, stylish, original."
Elle
"Marvelously metaphorical, describing macabre situations of both alienation and redemption."
Entertainment Weekly
"Julia Slavin is a major discovery. Her writing gets into your bloodstream like a fever."
