May We Shed These Human Bodies

About this book

May We Shed These Human Bodies peers through vast spaces and skies with the worlds most powerful telescope to find humanity: wild and bright and hard as diamonds. Here is humanity building: families reconstruct themselves mothers fashion babies from two-by-fours and nails boys make a mother out of leaves and twigs and wishes. Here is humanity tearing down: a wife sets her house on fire in revenge a young girl plots to kill the ghosts that stalk her a dying man takes the whole human race with him. Here is humanity transforming: feral children cannibalistic seniors animal wivesa whole sideshows worth of oddballs and freaks.