What people are saying:
The stories of Emily Hipchen, as true as they can be, are a primer for readers (and writers, both) interested in cleaving as closely as possible to what is knowable, possessable, and cherishable before having to relinquish it.
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring, author of Greek Unorthodox and The Visitors’ Book
Hipchen’s lyric and synesthetic prose is deeply attuned to time’s passage and to the forces that shape women’s lives.
Jane Satterfield, author of The Badass Brontës and Luminous Crown
Hipchen explores the ways that we as humans are forced—often (or always?) violently—to relinquish the creatures, including the versions of self, that we so desperately love and need.
Donna de la Perrière, author of For You Who are Being Obliterated, Works of Love and Terror, and Saint Erasure
This lyrical memoir which will stay with you long after you finish the last story.
Grace Talusan, author ofThe Body Papers
In prose both luminous and immersive, Hipchen introduces us to an unforgettable world that shines in memory and in the pages of this marvelous book.
Ned Balbo, author of The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots: Poems, 3 Nights of the Perseids, and Lives of the Sleepers
A steward of delicate interrelation, Emily Hipchen sparkles in Animal Husbandry.
Ralph James Savarese, author of Reasonable People and See It Feelingly