Bobcat And Other Stories

"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 … ”"