Bobcat And Other Stories
by Rebecca Lee
Buy on AmazonRebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's shadowy past. A dinner party becomes the occasion for the dissolution of more than one marriage. A woman is hired to find a wife for the one true soulmate she's ever found. In all, Rebecca Lee traverses the terrain of infidelity, obligation, sacrifice, jealousy, and yet finally, optimism.…
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"Rebecca Lee is a virtuoso — ironic, original, cosmopolitan. Standouts in this first collection are “Fialta,” about a love triangle set at an invitation-only workshop run by the “architect of the prairies,” and the title story, in which the hostess of an elaborate Upper West Side dinner party discovers her husband is cheating. In an eerie parallel, a guest describes a bobcat attack in Nepal: ” … when blood leaks out of a body, the body loses its pulsing internal clock, and all understanding of time is released. The soul becomes loosed from the body and unhinged from time simultaneously and begins to roam freely about … ”"
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