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Jill McCorkle's new assortment of 12 short experiences is peopled with individuals brilliantly like us - flawed, clueless, endearing. These experiences are also "animaled" with all manner of mammal, bird, fish, reptile - also flawed and endearing. She asks, what don't humans tell the so-called less species? Searching for the solution, she requires us back to her fictional home town of Fulton, NEW YORK, to meet a broad range of individuals facing up to the double-edged sword life offers hominids. The understanding with which McCorkle says their experiences crackles with wit, but also with a deeper - and more forgiving - knowledge than previously. In "Billy Goats", Fulton's herd of seventh graders cruises the summer times, peeking into parked vehicles, maddening the town madman. In "Monkeys", a widow keeps her husband's precious spider monkey close, together with his deepest secrets. In "Dogs", an individual mother who works for a animal medical practitioner compares him - unfavorably - with his patients. In "Snakes", a practiced wife recognizes what might have been a snake in the turf and makes a decision to step over it. And, in the lovely final account, "Fish", a grieving little princess remembers her father's empathy for the ugliest of most fishes. The success behind Jill McCorkle's short experiences - and her novels - is, as one reviewer known, her skill as an archaeologist of the absurd, an expert at excavating and evaluating the humor of daily life (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Yes, as well as the tragedy. The entire list of narrators includes Claire Slemmer, Allyson Johnson, Allison McLemore, Lauren Fortgang, Margaret Daly, Holly Fielding, Elizabeth Evans, and Gabra Zackman.

Category: Short Stories