A review by shiloniz
Animal Wife by Lara Ehrlich

5.0

Animal wife is a series of stories about the ferocity of women and their desires. "She had been afraid of her own ravenous hunger," Lara Ehrlich writes in stories about women who have secret lives as fighters, women who disappear from their lives, women who turn themselves into deer, fall in love with bears, dare to dream of different lives. Women who have been wronged, who have been abused, who have been plagued, haunted, gutted, become feral, grow claws and root around in the muck of their own losses. Although these stories aren't connected, surprising repetitions appear throughout, weaving a sort of tapestry, like those yarn quilts we all had in the 90s. Not thick enough to keep you warm, but something seems better than nothing, at least that's the case for so many of these women until something causes a rupture, a tear in the fabric of the lives they built, thought they wanted, imagined them to be.