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"""Paola Ferrante's monster-haunted stories are as dark as a moonless lake--and as beautiful."" --André Forget, Amazon Canada First Novel Award-nominated author of In the City of Pigs. ""Paola Ferrante's writing is so daring, so sharp and visceral, and yet so effortless. Gorgeous, wry, and unsettling, Her Body Among Animals pulls the reader in and doesn't let go until the final page."" --Amy Jones, author of Every Little Piece of Me. ""The vibrant stories in Paola Ferrante's collection Her Body Among Animals transport the reader to strange, yet achingly familiar territory. Ferrante holds up a funhouse mirror to our contemporary moment with her sharp and dazzling prose . . . These wondrous narratives showcase the infinite scope of the universe and the ways in which we struggle to survive."" --Doretta Lau, author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?. ""Precise yet poetic, sharply observed yet compassionate and tender, these cautionary tales for future generations burst the bounds of genre and take us into new and exciting literary realms."" --David Demchuck, a Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated author of The Bone Mother and RED X."

"Her Body Among Animals is a finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Books of the Year Awards in the Adult Fiction: Short Stories category. Her Body Among Animals is the Silver Winner for Short Stories from the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Her Body Among Animals is a nominee for the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards in the Single-Author Collection category ""Precise yet poetic, sharply observed yet compassionate and tender, these cautionary tales for future generations burst the bounds of genre and take us into new and exciting literary realms."" --David Demchuck, a Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated author of The Bone Mother and RED X. Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante is shortlisted for the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. ""There is no filler here; each story is devastating, brilliantly imaginative, and almost impossible to summarize neatly. Ferrante is a vital new voice in short fiction."" --Publishers Weekly ""Paola Ferrante's monster-haunted stories are as dark as a moonless lake--and as beautiful."" --Andr� Forget, Amazon Canada First Novel Award-nominated author of In the City of Pigs. ""Paola Ferrante's writing is so daring, so sharp and visceral, and yet so effortless. Gorgeous, wry, and unsettling, Her Body Among Animals pulls the reader in and doesn't let go until the final page."" --Amy Jones, author of Every Little Piece of Me. ""The vibrant stories in Paola Ferrante's collection Her Body Among Animals transport the reader to strange, yet achingly familiar territory. Ferrante holds up a funhouse mirror to our contemporary moment with her sharp and dazzling prose . . . These wondrous narratives showcase the infinite scope of the universe and the ways in which we struggle to survive."" --Doretta Lau, author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?."

"""Precise yet poetic, sharply observed yet compassionate and tender, these cautionary tales for future generations burst the bounds of genre and take us into new and exciting literary realms."" --David Demchuck, a Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated author of The Bone Mother and RED X."

"Her Body Among Animals is a finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Books of the Year Awards in the Adult Fiction: Short Stories category. ""There is no filler here; each story is devastating, brilliantly imaginative, and almost impossible to summarize neatly. Ferrante is a vital new voice in short fiction."" --Publishers Weekly ""Paola Ferrante's monster-haunted stories are as dark as a moonless lake--and as beautiful."" --Andr� Forget, Amazon Canada First Novel Award-nominated author of In the City of Pigs. ""Paola Ferrante's writing is so daring, so sharp and visceral, and yet so effortless. Gorgeous, wry, and unsettling, Her Body Among Animals pulls the reader in and doesn't let go until the final page."" --Amy Jones, author of Every Little Piece of Me. ""The vibrant stories in Paola Ferrante's collection Her Body Among Animals transport the reader to strange, yet achingly familiar territory. Ferrante holds up a funhouse mirror to our contemporary moment with her sharp and dazzling prose . . . These wondrous narratives showcase the infinite scope of the universe and the ways in which we struggle to survive."" --Doretta Lau, author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?. ""Precise yet poetic, sharply observed yet compassionate and tender, these cautionary tales for future generations burst the bounds of genre and take us into new and exciting literary realms."" --David Demchuck, a Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated author of The Bone Mother and RED X."

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PAOLA FERRANTE is a writer living with depression. Her debut poetry collection, What to Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She has won Grain Magazine's Short Grain Contest for Poetry, The New Quarterly's Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award, Room Magazine's Fiction Contest, and was longlisted for the 2020 Journey Prize. Her work appears in After Realism: 24 Stories for the 21st Century, Best Canadian Poetry 2021, North American Review, PRISM International, and elsewhere. She was born, and still resides in, Toronto.

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