As the feline population explodes, “your cats wove in and out of your legs,” Ms. A woman dumped by a man makes “dunes” of cat litter across her house floor. In fact, in “You and Your Cats,” she takes the idea of the lonely cat lady to its extreme. Hunter always makes you care about her characters, many of whom are lonely girls and women. Hunter’s prose, the line would be jagged: rising with a well-observed moment - a girl’s hand “crabcrawling” from a boy’s thigh to his zipper - and free-falling with breathless run-on sentences that try too hard. With his father passed out drunk, he gets a ride home from his sister and confronts death firsthand when their car hits a pregnant deer and kills it.ĭON’T KISS ME By Lindsay Hunter 175 pages. In “Snuff,” another teenager tries to come to terms with the murder he’s just watched on film at a party outside town. As the boy awakens to what might be possible with her, he discovers her in bed with his father. In “Cash or Trade,” the narrator, who’s just finished his junior year, spends an afternoon drinking beer with the sexy 19-year-old drifter his used-car-salesman dad has hired to wash cars in her cutoffs. Angel focuses on teenagers living in nothing California towns who are promoted to manhood early, usually because of an absence or failure in the parental ranks above them. In this accomplished, moving collection of stories about boys, she proves the uselessness of the old dictum that you should write what you know. $14.95.Īccording to her bio in the back of the book, Ms. YOU ONLY GET LETTERS FROM JAIL By Jodi Angel 286 pages.
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