A01=Melody Mansfield
abuse
anthology
Author_Melody Mansfield
buddhist
bugs
catastrophy
Category1=Fiction
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contemporary
death
depression
disability
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existential
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Format_Paperback
HMM=202
identity
IMPN=Xeno Books
insects
ISBN13=9781939096005
Language_English
literary
love
microfiction
mortality
PA=Available
PD=20130101
perspective
play
poems
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Xeno Books
quick reads
reincarnation
short form
short story collection
SMM=15
Subject=Fiction: Special Features
western civilization
WG=236
WMM=130
women author
Product details
- ISBN 9781939096005
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 236g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 15mm
- Publication Date: 14 Nov 2013
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A Bug Collection is not for the squeamish. These stories about love, death, and the webby, tenuous intersections between the two take a humorous and heartbreaking look at the complexities of human life through the compound eyes of bugs. When a lone mayfly has a painful revelation about the ephemerality of her own existence, it sets in motion a chain of revelations by more bugs: a honey bee who struggles against a paralyzing depression; a katydid who comes to terms with a life-altering disability; a water strider who offers proof of reincarnation; a tribe of ants who must confront their individual and collective powerlessness in the face of a catastrophic event; a tumbling flower beetle who falls for an abusive mate; an earthworm who gains a Buddhist-like understanding of his place in the universe; and a host of other bugs who force us to consider what it means to be fully alive in a world of dung.
