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Animal Husbandry

Animal Husbandry

Hipchen, Emily

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Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 1972482084
ISBN13: 9781972482087
Publisher: Serving House Books
Published: Apr 14 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In her new essay collection, Animal Husbandry, Emily Hipchen writes about the fraught relationships between people and animals: a husband and wife run their canoe aground on a stack of homicidal alligators; a college student enters a freezing pond fully clothed in an attempt to rescue a drowning duck; a backyard farmer attempts to figure out whether the baby chickens she's adopted will be hens (hint: not all of them); a dog lover confronts her dogs' violent nature. And some of the animals in this collection are actually people: a pedophile parked beside a playground; a truck driver who nearly kills the narrator's husband; a pair of ambivalent biological parents; the narrator herself fumbling through a poetry class, bewildered by love. There are awkward friendships, weird dissections, bouts of synesthesia, trials by food and fire, marriages, adoptions, separations, death-and the consequent grief and nostalgia for what's been and been destroyed. In language both precise and poetic, these stories capture beginnings and endings, attempting to understand relinquishment in the context of memory and expression, which exist to undo it.

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