Pet
Subtitle: stories
By: written and illustrated by Kathryn van Beek
Publisher: Mary Egan Publishing
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Pukekohe, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780473522575
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Pets; Fiction
Description: "Pet is a dark and humorous short story collection that explores our relationships with children, lovers, and other animals. In these 18 stories we meet a girl in a standoff with the neighbourhood goose killer, a druggy who turns possums into pop culture icons, and an emotional support animal gone wild"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Emotional support animal; title: Best-dressed possum; title: Good dog; title: The hoarder; title: Kittens; title: Luna's crew; title: The quickening; title: The trapeze artist; title: Winter; title: Heterochromia; title: Fool's gold; title: The fishhook; title: Speaking in tongues; title: Women's studies; title: The pack; title: The lucky numbers; title: The Nor'wester; title: Lockdown.