A Bug Collection

By Melody Mansfield

Book Overview

A Bug Collection is not for the squeamish. These stories about love, death, and the webby, tenuous intersections between the two take a humorous and heartbreaking look at the complexities of human life through the compound eyes of bugs. When a lone mayfly has a painful revelation about the ephemerality of her own existence, it sets in motion a chain of revelations by more bugs: a honey bee who struggles against a paralyzing depression; a katydid who comes to terms with a life-altering disability; a water strider who offers proof of reincarnation; a tribe of ants who must confront their individual and collective powerlessness in the face of a catastrophic event; a tumbling flower beetle who falls for an abusive mate; an earthworm who gains a Buddhist-like understanding of his place in the universe; and a host of other bugs who force us to consider what it means to be fully alive in a world of dung.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939096006
• ISBN13: 9781939096005
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Xeno Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.9"