"Feeding Strays" - A Short Story Collection by Stefanie Freele (Lost Horse Press) is now available.
Back Cover:A woman hides from her husband in a fish tank and another absently bakes sponges inside her tarts. Appliances drop from the sky, men grapple with chainsaws, women struggle with hormonal violence, and abandoned boys beg on doorsteps. Enter into the territory of broken people and the folks that love them.
Sensitive and unruly, sincere and absurd, Stefanie Freele's "Feeding Strays" is a collection of fifty short stories, both slipstream and modern, about children, family, relationships, and oysters.
As its title suggests, Feeding Strays is a deeply compassionate collection. Stefanie Freele has a knack for capturing stray moments in her characters' lives -- moments most writers would overlook -- and charging them with a strange and wondrous grace. These stories will unsettle you, inspire you, and make you feel part of the greater human family.
-- Gayle Brandeis, author of the Bellweather Prize-winning The Book Of Dead Birds, Fruitflesh, and Self Storage
How I love the stories of Stefanie Freele for their endless surprises, their lemon-tart humor, their beautiful-ugly characters. I'm not always certain how she accomplishes her magic -- her stories as quick as a shell game -- but I am certain that you will set down this book as I did, with a hurt heart and a curious smile.
-- Benjamin Percy, author of Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk
http://www.stefaniefreele.com/id25.html
Also, copies of "Feeding Strays" will be available at the Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino. A reading & book signing will be held on Friday October 30th at the Gallery Bookshop at 6:30.
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