Human/Animal
eBook - PDF

Human/Animal

A Bestiary in Essays

  1. 212 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Human/Animal

A Bestiary in Essays

About this book

Amie Souza Reilly bought an old house in the suburbs. She had just gotten remarried and was looking forward to a new start with her new husband and her six-year-old son. But immediately after moving in, the next-door neighbors began a crusade to push them out. The two brothers followed her, peered in her windows, stood in her yard, trapped her inside her car. As they broke boundary after suburban boundary, she found herself implicated in their violence.

Human/Animal merges personal narrative and cultural criticism to unleash the complicated relationship between instinct and action, violence and regret. This bestiary-in-essays wrestles American colonialism, horror films, feminism, and gender studies to confront the intrusive neighbors the author could not. Ultimately, this book asks larger questions about proximity, care, and the line between human and animal.

Illustrated with the author’s own sketches, Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays grapples not only with Reilly’s place in her neighborhood, but with America’s past and current political climate.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Life Writing Series
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. About the Publisher
  7. Dedication
  8. Table of Contents
  9. Author’s note
  10. Preface
  11. I. What happened
  12. II. On boundaries
  13. III. On gossip
  14. IV. On performance
  15. V. On catching and being caught
  16. VI. On fear
  17. VII. On boundaries, again
  18. VIII. On boundaries, once more
  19. IX, On paranoia and revenge
  20. X. On continuation
  21. Afterword
  22. Full bestiary, collected and alphabetized
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Notes
  25. Bibliography
  26. Books in the Life Writing Series