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It was named best book of 2007 by fight club author chuck palahniuk in the december 2007 issue of playboy magazine. Sarah studies animal behavior at the oregon zoo, fascinated by how and why animals mate and reproduce. Monica drake is a portland novelist whose second book, the stud book, is a meditation on overpopulation. Watch the book trailer of monica drakes the stud book, a sharpedged and funny satire that explores the complexities of what parenthood means today. Her essays and short stories have appeared in a variety of journals, and she is a regular contributor to the o. Monica drakes most recent book, the folly of loving life, has been compared to the stories of denis johnsons jesus son. Women agehell, people agebut the issues women face while aging are complicated, and these complications are finely brought to bear in monica drake s the stud book. The four female protagonists in the new book have each answered the question in their own way, but the consequences of their decisions play out uneasily, hilariously, and. Animal metaphors play a recurring role in monica drakes the stud book, as much a thesis on the perils of babymaking and motherhood as it is on the stigmas of remaining childlesseither by choice or otherwisein modern america.
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The folly of loving life by monica drake future tense books. The folly of loving life features linked stories examining an array of characters at their most vulnerable and human, often escaping to somewhere or trying to find stability in their own place. She earns money by dressing up in a latex suit custommade to depict the human anatomy, wearing it to high school assemblies and getting paid to teach students about sex ed. Monica drake is the author of clown girl and the stud book. You know how some people turn their noses up at genre fiction. I was instantly consumed by its evocative exploration of motherhood in the pacific northwest. The novel follows the friendships of four women of a certain age, all with different relationships to motherhood. A sharpedged satire of contemporary motherhood from a comic novelist on the.
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