BOOKMARK: Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters

Every time the short story is pronounced dead, along comes a writer like Berkshire resident Jessica Treat to perform CPR on the expiring form. Like Raymond Carver, Jayne Anne Phillips, Lorrie Moore, and others, Treat makes the genre her own. Her third effort, Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters, mixes short-shorts or almost prose poems with more traditional stories, presenting a slim but powerful collection that explores the real and surreal connections between parents and children, husbands and wives, and our lesser, but just as deep, relationships with our pets and even our automobiles. [OCTOBER 2009]

 

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Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters
By Jessica Treat
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