Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang

Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang

In the phenomenal>Organ Meats, two friends are bound by a red string, dog bloodlines, and the violence that is being a girl (Ms. magazine)--from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and author of>Gods of Want.

Organ Meats possesses something of the febrile intensity of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, their laser focus on female friendship, but instead of Naples, K-Ming Chang's wild girls inhabit a magical universe of talking dogs and shape-shifting body parts.--The New York Times>(Editors' Choice)

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST - AN>AUTOSTRADLE>BEST BOK OF THE YEAR

Best friends Anita and Rainie find refuge by an old sycamore tree with its neighboring lot of stray dogs who have a mysterious ability to communicate with humans. The girls learn that they are preceded by generations of dog-headed women and woman-headed dogs whose bloodlines bind them together. Anita convinces Rainie to become a dog with her, tying a collar of red string around each of their necks to preserve their kinship forever. But when the two girls are separated, Anita sinks into a dreamworld that only Rainie knows how to rescue her from. As Anita's body begins to rot, it is up to Rainie to rebuild Anita's body and keep her friend from being lost forever.

Filled with ghosts and bodily entrails, this is a story about the horror and beauty of intimacy, written in K-Ming Chang's signature poetic and visceral lore.

K-Ming Chang was born in the year of the tiger. She is a Kundiman Fellow and a Lambda Literary Award finalist in poetry. Her poems have been anthologized in Ink Knows No Borders, Best New Poets 2018, Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3, the 2019 Pushcart Prize Anthology, and elsewhere. Raised in California, she now lives in New York.

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ISBN 13	9780593447345
ISBN 10	0593447344
Title	Organ Meats
Author	K-Ming Chang
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2023-10-24
Number of pages	288
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