Sixteen-year-old Iris Moody has a problem controlling her temper-but then, she has a lot to be angry about. Dead mother. Workaholic father. Dumped by her boyfriend. Failing English. When a note in Iris's journal is mistaken as a threat against her English teacher, she finds herself in trouble not only with school authorities but with the law. In addition to summer school, dog-phobic Iris is sentenced to an entire summer of community service, rehabilitating troubled dogs.
Iris believes she is nothing like Roman, the three-legged pit bull who is...
Sometimes, life becomes unleashed...
Sixteen-year-old Iris Moody has a problem controlling her temper-but then, she has a lot to be angry about....
In this collection rife with humour and pathos, alienated characters struggle to subvert, contain, control, and even escape their bodies. Dark humour and magical realism put in sharp relief the everyday trials of Americans in a story collection that asks, in what way are we more than the sum of our parts?
In this collection rife with humour and pathos, alienated characters struggle to subvert, contain, control, and even escape their bodies. Dark humour ...
