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Marvelous Freaks of Nature!

by Alyson Mosquera DuTemple

Longing at the fringes of the ordinary

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Longing at the fringes of the ordinary

This short-story collection links human loneliness and estrangement with the strange turns of everyday life. Its scenarios include an amateur herpetologist deceived through lizard-care message boards, a dental hygienist’s ill-fated visit to a sham psychic, and a grieving woman fixated on a gruesome gag gift. Together, these episodes place offbeat people and unsettling curiosities alongside familiar suburban settings, exploring the uneasy overlap between private grief, desire, and the bizarre.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in darkly comic short fiction and unconventional situations.
  • For those drawn to stories about loneliness, grief, and estrangement.
  • For readers who enjoy fiction set among the oddities of everyday suburban life.

Themes

Longing and estrangementGrief and desireThe bizarre in everyday lifeSuburban outsiders

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Book overview

An amateur herpetologist gets swindled by women he meets on lizard-care message boards, a dental hygienist takes a doomed trip to see a sham psychic on the Atlantic City boardwalk, a gruesome gag gift becomes the subject of morbid fascination for a grieving woman who can't stop sleeping with her roommate's boyfriend. With surgical focus and an infectious dark humor, Alyson Mosquera Dutemple's stories probe a vein of longing and estrangement. From oddballs and lonely hearts living on the fringes of suburbia to stunning abnormalities pulled out from Mother Nature's bag of tricks, MARVELOUS FREAKS OF NATURE! is a delightfully sly study of the shadowy crannies of the human heart. A dazzling debut so full of life it hurts.

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