Natural Histories: Stories

by Guadalupe Nettel

Book Overview

Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce and the impulse not to, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together. Each Nettel tale creates, with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609806050
• ISBN13: 9781609806057
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.8"