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Raised in captivity : fictional nonfiction
Call Number
- FICTION KLOS (CEN, OSH)
Publication Information
New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
Physical Description
307 pages ; 24 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song "Blizzard of Summer" becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why reality is mathematically unraveling. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination.
Contents
- Raised in captivity
- Execute again
- Toxic actuality
- How can this be the place?
- The truth about food
- Every day just comes and goes
- Blizzard of summer
- Of course it is
- Skin
- The perfect kind of friend
- Cat person
- Experience music project
- Pain is a concept by which we measure our god
- What about the children
- (An excerpt from) a life that wasn't mine
- Not that kind of person
- Rhinoceros
- The enemy within
- The secret
- Trial and error
- Tricks aren't illusions
- Fluke
- If something is free the product is you
- Never look at your phone
- Reality apathy
- Reasonable apprehension
- Just asking questions
- To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die, except that it actually is
- Tell don't show
- Slang of ages
- Slow pop
- [ ]
- I get it now
- The power of other people.