Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker

A captivating collection of essays that are unlike anything you've ever read before, exploring sexual assault, online obsession, motherhood, and the best way to kill a feral hog

About the author

Kathleen Hale is the author of two young adult novels and one essay collection. She has written for the Guardian, Hazlitt, and Vice, and is a writer and producer for Outer Banks on Netflix. She was born in Wisconsin and lives in Los Angeles.

Summary

In six wide-ranging essays, Kathleen Hale traces some of the most treacherous fault lines in modern America—from sexual assault to Internet trolling, from environmental illness to our own animal nature. In these thought-provoking stories of predators and prey, Hale proves herself to be an exhilarating new voice whose writing is both fearless and profound.In “First I Got Pregnant. Then I Decided to Kill the Mountain Lion,” Hale recounts the month she spent tracking a wild cat lost in the Hollywood Hills while pregnant; in “Prey,” she tells the troubling story of her sexual assault as a freshman in college; other essays recount the mesmerizing stories of a trip to hunt wild hogs in Florida, and a standoff with an anonymous blogger. Taking no prisoners and fearing no subject matter, Kathleen Hale wields razor-sharp wit, uncommon levels of empathy, and daring honesty, even in detailing some of the most difficult moments of her life.Outlandish, candid, and sometimes unsettling, Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker introduces an arresting new voice for this strange American century.

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Praise for Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker:
"In this collection of tightly wound personal essays, all of which generate insight into the human condition by ruminating on the animal kingdom or the natural world, Hale invites readers to consider survival in a persistently savage world . . . As Hale demonstrates, the recognition of quotidian savagery can be an ironically humanizing experience: it leads to a clear-eyed affirmation of survival over despair . . . Her writing possesses a knack for understatement that makes it easy for the reader to follow her into uncomfortable territory. This is lucky, because there is little that is more uncomfortable than recognizing everyday ferocity. But that’s just what Hale would have us do.”—

Product details

Authors	Kathleen Hale, Hale Kathleen
Publisher	Ingram Publishers Services
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	30.06.2019
EAN	9780802129093
ISBN	978-0-8021-2909-3
Dimensions	145 mm x 215 mm x 20 mm
Weight	314 g
Subjects	Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social media / social networking, Social, group or collective psychology, Literary essays

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Hale, Hale Kathleen
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780802129093
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-2909-3
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 215 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 314 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social media / social networking, Social, group or collective psychology, Literary essays