From the author of the acclaimed Pity the Best, a collection of new stories plumbing the depths of American laughter and evil.
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Robin McLean crafts stories with a unique perspective honed by a life rich in diverse experiences. Before turning to fiction, she navigated careers as a lawyer and then as a potter in the Alaskan wilderness for fifteen years. This unconventional path imbues her writing with a distinct voice, offering readers unusual insights and a deep understanding of the human condition. Her work is characterized by its sharp observations and its ability to explore complex themes with compelling narrative.
- 2022
- 2021
A brutalized woman is left for dead. But dead is the one thing she isn't. With a stolen horse and rifle, she escapes into the mountains, and a small posse of her tormentors has to gear up and give chase-whether to beg forgiveness or shut her up for good, nobody knows. With detours through time, space and myth-not to mention into the minds of a pack of philosophical mules-Pity the Beast is a mind-melting feminist Western that pins a tale of sexual violence and vengeance to a canvas as wide and strange as America itself. It's a novel that turns our assumptions about the West, masculinity, good and evil, and the very nature of storytelling onto their heads, with an eye to the cosmic as well as the comic. It urges us to write our stories anew-if we want to avoid becoming beasts ourselves