About the Author:
In addition to RECIPES FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES, Traci O. Connor has published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in journals such as Barrow Street, FOURTEEN HILLS, Gargoyle, Margie, Mid-American Review, Lit, and Diagram. She holds an M.F.A. and a PhD from the University of Utah. A writer and assistant professor at Guilford College, she lives with her family in Greensboro, North Carolina.
From Publishers Weekly:
Aside from the deliberate efforts to shock, these stories constitute some tender, aching love stories. Connor's characters are curious specimens who don't quite fit in, but have rich inner lives, such as Zha Zha, the chronically unfaithful exotic dancer in The Flying Codona (tits are made of cantaloupe and she eats them with a spoon), whose lovelorn boyfriend consoles himself by dreaming of being a trapeze artist. Starla and June is a creepy, Hitchcockian tale about an unraveling love affair involving a prosthetic hand that offers words of courage and strength: Oh, Pet, she'll be back, says the hand. Van Gogh Dreams juxtaposes vivid descriptions of flowers with excerpts from the painter's late asylum notebooks to evoke the chilling stream-of-consciousness of a troubled narrator. Monkey Teeth is a kind of nut job's notebook, full of Lolita-like obsession (including photographs). Cocktail recipes conclude each of the stories in this varied and occasionally unnerving debut collection. (May)
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