The Octopus Has Three Hearts - Paperback
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The Octopus Has Three Hearts - Paperback
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by Rachel Rose (Author)
Nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize: Acclaimed poet Rachel Rose makes her fiction debut in a collection featuring outcasts who find solace in the animal world.
The Octopus Has Three Hearts offers dispatches from the margins of human society. These are stories about damaged people who have committed, witnessed or survived terrible acts and who must make their way in an unforgiving world.
From a goat farmer to a suburban adulterer, a violent child to a polyamorous marine biologist, Rose's diverse characters have little in common except a life-sustaining connection to the animal world. The octopus, dogs, pigs, chameleons, bats, parrots, rats and sugar gliders in their lives extend a measure of compassion and solace that their human communities lack.
Rachel Rose's finely tuned sense of irony is evident in this collection, which embraces the strange and unexpected, exploring the outer limits of empathy and forgiveness. Her flawed and broken characters, who may range far from readers' own lived experiences, reveal universal elements of the human condition and the curious redemption of the human-animal bond.
Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: September 26, 2021
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