The Thing About Great White Sharks: and Other Stories

by Rebecca Adams Wright

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In this collection’s richly imagined title story, our brutal and resourceful protagonist is determined to protect her family from a murderous, shark-ridden world—at any cost. Elsewhere, an old woman uncovers a sinister plot while looking after a friend’s plants (“Orchids”), and a girl in the war-torn countryside befriends an unlikely creature (“Keeper of the Glass”). In “Barnstormers,” a futuristic flying circus tries to forestall bankruptcy with one last memorable show. At the heart of “Sheila” is the terrible choice a retired judge must make when faced with the destruction of his beloved robotic dog, and “Yuri, in a Blue Dress” follows one of the last survivors of an alien invasion as she seeks help.

Extending from World War II to the far future, these fifteen stories offer a gorgeously observed perspective on our desire for connection and what it means to have compassion—for ourselves, for one another, for our past…and for whatever lies beyond.

  • ISBN10 1477821074
  • ISBN13 9781477821077
  • Publish Date 10 February 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Amazon Publishing
  • Imprint Little A
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 182
  • Language English