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When Tracy’s brother Aaron commits suicide, she inherits his dogs: two dog-aggressive pit bulls and the French mastiff Stella.
As Tracy navigates her grief, she also has to learn how to care for her new dogs – who come with issues of their own. The dogs provide independent Tracy with ready-made fences, and necessitate new relationships with others exploring their own memories, fractured families and mental health issues. Life in the small Wisconsin town is a fishbowl of sorts, but also a place where pain is private – oblique and whispered.
For anyone who has loved a dog, for anyone who has tried to navigate the class distinctions of small-town America, for anyone who has tried to balance the expectations of who the world says they should be with their own unruly desires, This Business of the Flesh speaks to the families & friendships we make out of our pasts.
About the author
C. Kubasta writes poetry, fiction, and hybrid forms. Her last book was the short-story collection Abjectification (Apprentice House). A former professor of writing, literature, and cultural studies, she is now the executive director of Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts in Mineral Point Wisconsin, which offers arts & crafts workshops for adults and youth. She is passionate about language, rural imagery, and the stories we try not to tell. She's working on herself. Find her at ckubasta.com and follow her @CKfaubastathePoet
