Description: Populating a small town in the Pacific Northwest, the characters in this story collection all resist giving the world what it expects of themand are surprised when the world comes roaring back.
Brief description:
Lucia Perillo has published five books of poetry and a collection of essays. Her book Inseminating the Elephant won the Bobbitt Prize and was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain is her first work of fiction. She lives in Olympia, Washington.
Review Quotes:
"Lucia Perillo isn't just a strikingly original poet; she's a top-notch fiction writer as well. The stories in this bleakly funny and harrowing collection are reminiscent of both Raymond Carver and Denis Johnson, but the vision than animates them is Perillo's own, unique and unmistakable."
-- "Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author"