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What Leni-Kristina Hoffman offers in this little book of fables is a glimpse into the animal world, where beasts, like humans, struggle to understand one another and the world they live in. Traditional in style but modern in tone, these stories feature a cast that includes the sour and the hopeful, the apathetic and the thoughtful, the charitable and the self-obsessed, all tied together by an often dark irony. Wry, witty, simple but wise, the stories in Bestiary offer a challenge: they invite us to ask, along with the higher-up opossum, "Why do I feel somehow dissatisfied?"
Stark, sad, and darkly luminous, Bestiary is a previously undiscovered work of American literature whose path to publication offers a mystery, and a moral, as intriguing as the tales that lie within.
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