Worshipping the Sun - Cara Lynn Albert
Product Details:
Paperback : 192 Pages
ISBN : 9781951631796
Cover design: Peter Selgin
About the Book:
Welcome to Florida, just a few degrees stranger than the one you thought you knew.
In Worshipping the Sun, the swamps steam, the theme parks creak, and the anthropomorphic Gator people (bipedal, scaled, and often over nine feet tall) move at the edges of “civilized” society. But it’s the humans who reveal the sharpest teeth.
Across 11 linked stories, family fracture, grief, desire, and queer identity collide in uncanny, darkly funny encounters. A woman seeks answers about her queerness from a Gator psychic. A Gator man wakes up in the body of a teenage theme park employee. An older, barren woman regrets adopting a child she can’t control. A wealthy man reconnects with his desperate, estranged sister the weekend of her drag show. And, at the end of the world, a woman rides an alligator toward her last chance at reconciliation with her father as the Earth spins closer to the sun.
Blending fabulism with emotional and social insight, Worshipping the Sun is a haunting portrait of a world where the borders between species and identities grow thin, and what’s human isn’t always humane.
About the Author:
Cara Lynn Albert is a writer from Florida, a place she deeply loves despite its best efforts. She writes strange stories about characters that live in the gray area between good and evil, often filtered through surreal or speculative elements. Her work strives to answer very human questions like what we want, why we want, why we hurt each other, and how we justify the choices we make. Cara earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Colorado Boulder. She lives in Tennessee and teaches creative writing with The Porch. Find her online at caralynnalbert.com.
“A painfully hilarious x-ray of all things Florida, written with tenderness and rage, nostalgia and disgust.”
“A fantastic, heartbreaking, funny, weird-ass collection.”
“From gator girls to gator nuggets to alligators saddled for postapocalyptic transportation, the stories in Cara Albert’s searing debut are fierce, funny, and fantastically Florida. A book that demands you savor every bite.”