This darkly comic and surreal collection features misfit women navigating bizarre and uncanny situations as they seek agency in their lives. Alissa Nutting's celebrated storytelling captures the struggles and resilience of these characters, blending humor with a thought-provoking exploration of their unique challenges.
So when Byron demands to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips, turning Hazel into a human guinea pig, Hazel makes a run for it.
Celeste Price, an attractive eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa, leads a seemingly perfect life with her wealthy husband, Ford. However, she harbors a dark secret: a disturbing sexual obsession with fourteen-year-old boys.
In this darkly hilarious debut collection, misfit women and girls in every strata of society are investigated through various ill-fated jobs. One is the main course of dinner, another the porn star contracted to copulate in space for a reality TV show. They become futuristic ant farms, get knocked up by the star high school quarterback and have secret abortions, use parakeets to reverse amputations, make love to garden gnomes, go into air conditioning ducts to confront their mother’s ghost, and do so in settings that range from Hell to the local white-supremacist bowling alley.