Title: Women & other animals
First published: 1999
Description: "These women of Michigan's lower peninsula may live without automotive safety belts or televisions or the right kind of love, but they are able to trust their instincts and are ultimately drawn to whatever can save them."--BOOK JACKET.

"In "Sleeping Sickness" a twelve-year-old girl copes with the sexually charged atmosphere created by her mother's new boyfriend. In "Bringing Home the Bones" a woman must lose her leg before she can come to terms with her estranged daughters. In "Running" the narrator obsesses about the mating habits of birds and the promiscuity of her neighbor's daughter while her own fertility trickles away. In "Eating Aunt Victoria" a young woman finally looks into the face of her dead mother's lesbian lover.

In "Shifting Gears" a man buys a new truck in order to get over his wife's leaving but can't stop thinking about the pregnant woman next door."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Working class women, Mothers and daughters, Human-animal relationships, Poor women, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, short stories (single author), Michigan, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Manners and customs, Fiction, general
Places: Michigan
LC classification: PS3553.A43956 W65 1999