Kerry Donoghue

Mouth (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Consumption drives everything and what we do with our mouths reveals the surprising depths of our secret hunger. MOUTH explores the American obsession with consumption. The characters in these ten stories are forced to confront who they become when they can't fill their emptiness.

In "Hunger," a newlywed desperate for motherhood secretly grapples with infertility and anorexia, while her husband trains as a competitive eater. In "Fever," two siblings lose their mother to alcoholism and navigate grief and addiction, one by training as a pearl diver in the Tennessee River, the other through gin. "Casualties of the Vainglorious" follows a father and son through divorce and unemployment against the backdrop of a Monopoly tournament. A rodeo clown struggles with the impending departure of his best friend, a gold-buckle cowboy, and resorts to sabotage in "The Ovation." A married couple confront fidelity, duty, and sexuality on their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary in "A Step Ahead of the Alligator." In "Climate Change," a vengeful car accident victim finds power exploiting his changing body, using his immobility to trap his wife. In "You and Your Cold Soviet Heart," an outdoorsman's independence is threatened when he discovers his fiancée is pregnant. When she refuses an abortion, he must choose between unwanted fatherhood with her or a seemingly simpler life with a mail-order bride. "Birds of Paradise" unearths the shocking depths of a woman's romantic obsession with her best friend during a medical crisis. In "Refrain," a jazz pianist struggles to keep his darkest secret hidden, risking everything for one more indulgence. And in "Jenny," a voiceover artist gambles on her happiness when she unveils her true self and publicly starts living as a mermaid.

Perfectionism, alcoholism, infidelity: who are we when we hunger?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Unsolicited Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230072225
• Artikelnr.: 72858878

Autorenporträt

Growing up in the suburbs of Los Angeles during the '80s and '90s meant Kerry Donoghue spent her childhood roaming through malls. Speedwalking laps with her grandma. Trick-or-treating. Secretly kissing boys. Getting clocked while working the holiday rush. Watching where people shopped, how they dressed, and what they ate set off her fascination with consumption, a forever theme in her writing. Her poetry and stories have appeared in Ninth Letter, Painted Bride Quarterly, Permafrost, The Louisville Review, and The South Carolina Review, among other journals. She also wrote The Loudest Voice of All, a children's book, to fundraise for an organization that educates girls about the power of voting. She earned an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. You can find her in the Bay Area, eating crunchwraps by the sea, where she lives with her family and, sadly, no good malls. Get to know her at www.kerrydonoghue.com.