Filthy Animals
New York : Riverhead Books, 2021.
Format: Book
Description: 276 pages ; 21 cm
"In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young creatives in the American midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night; a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink; and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort, and cruelty"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Potluck -- Little beast -- Flesh -- As though that were love -- Proctoring -- Filthy animals -- Mass -- Anne of Cleves -- Apartment -- What made them made you -- Meat.
Subjects:
Short stories, American.
Young adults -- United States -- Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Sex -- Fiction.
Middle West -- 21st century -- Fiction.
Short stories, American.
Young adults -- United States -- Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Sex -- Fiction.
Middle West -- 21st century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780525538912
