Open Throat

A mountain lion is on the brink of starvation in the urban landscape of Los Angeles. As it observes the city's perilous beauty and confronts climate change, inequality and love, the animal asks itself: Does it want to eat a human, or become one?

Informationen zum Autor Henry Hoke is the author of the memoir Sticker , The Book of Endless Sleepovers , the story collection Genevieves , and the novel The Groundhog Forever . His work has appeared in Electric Literature , Triangle House , The Offing , and the Catapult anthology Tiny Crimes . He holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, where he taught for five years, and presently teaches at the University of Virginia Young Writers Workshop and lives in Brooklyn. Klappentext A mountain lion is on the brink of starvation in the urban landscape of Los Angeles. As it observes the city's perilous beauty and confronts climate change, inequality and love, the animal asks itself: Does it want to eat a human, or become one? Zusammenfassung A mountain lion is on the brink of starvation in the urban landscape of Los Angeles. As it observes the city's perilous beauty and confronts climate change, inequality and love, the animal asks itself: Does it want to eat a human, or become one?

Autorentext
Henry Hoke is the author of the memoir Sticker, The Book of Endless Sleepovers, the story collection Genevieves, and the novel The Groundhog Forever. His work has appeared in Electric Literature, Triangle House, The Offing, and the Catapult anthology Tiny Crimes. He holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, where he taught for five years, and presently teaches at the University of Virginia Young Writers Workshop and lives in Brooklyn.