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Big Cats opens with “Charlotte,”
in which a young girl with a broken pelvis spies on her voluptuous
neighbor during a long, hot summer night, setting the tone
of irrepressible curiosity and yearning that is evident throughout
the collection. In “Get Away from Me, David,”
a bank manager tries to overcome his haunted past as he deals
with the aftermath of a minor earthquake and the body of a
customer who died in the lobby. “Big Cats” pits
two teenage girls against each other in an escalating catfight
at the zoo where they work, culminating in a blowout in front
of the lion cage.
Holiday Reinhorn is a graduate of
the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; the recipient of a Tobias
Wolff Award for Fiction and a Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship
from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and a finalist
for the PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award. A nominee for both
the Pushcart Prize and the anthology Best New American Voices,
she lives in Van Nuys, California. Her stories have appeared
in Tin House, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Other Voices, Northwest
Review, and other literary magazines.
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