Marisa Matarazzo / Drenched: Stories of Love and Other Deliriums
Two lovers accidentally create a love potion while making a batch of Jell-O. An apartment is filled with water as an act of gravity-defying devotion to an acrobat. At turns blissful, absurd, sexy, and devastating, Marisa Matarazzo’s stories don’t just push the boundaries of love – they show how very boundless it is.
These interconnected shorts take love to a new level, another world, where a sex fever can sweep a town and where sex acts are performed while tied to the raised mast of a sailboat. Falling into love, swimming, and drowning in it, Matarazzo’s characters often exist in places where land and water collide: a girl without hands is rescued from the sea by an oil-rig worker; a boy transplants a fish into the body of a menacing neighbor; a woman on the rebound has an unexpected encounter with an otherworldly water engineer…
Fusing magical realism and fantastical elements with the heart of here and now, Drenched is a celebration of the fluid sorcery of love – in its ardor, its ugliness, all of its uncanny and magnificent manifestations.
- Street:
- The Booksmith
- Additional:
- 1644 Haight Street
- City:
- San Francisco ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 94117
- Country:
- United States
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