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.

Drenched: Stories of Love and Other Deliriums (Paperback)

By Marisa Matarazzo

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9781593762711
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Soft Skull Press, 01/01/2010

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