FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS TRUST FICTION PRIZEWith an intimate, comic, and compassionate eye, the twelve stories in Simple Creatures consider what it means to live with less in the twentyfirst century.In this debut collection, featuring stories set in locations from the Pacific Northwest and upstate New York to the English coast, Robert McGill explores the heartaches and joys of people who are desperate to uncomplicate their complicated world. Through stories consisting of YouTube monologues, petcare instructions, school reports, and the unspoken thoughts of a young scholar obsessed with a famous Canadian writer, Simple Creatures also shows us the sometimes hilarious, often poignant ways in which our use of language shapes our relationships with others and ourselves.Along the way, we meet a teenager who wants to live among a community of Bigfoot that he claims to have discovered in the woods the widow of a famous endocrinologist after she gains custody of a chimpanzee from his lab a boy whose fledgling hockey career is troubled by the fact that his name is Leo Gretzky and a divorcee seeking out the mysterious author of a viral environmental pledge. Through their lives, Simple Creatures offers an acute, sympathetic portrait of our time."Here are people struggling with simple needs and small dramas that nevertheless got entirely under my skin sublime awe, tender longing, painful anxiety, too. Robert McGills masterful Simple Creatures reminded me of how...

Binding: Paperback;200 pages; Publisher: Coach House Books; Classification: FA; Weight: 394 g; Dimensions: 208 x 133 x 16

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