Cattail Stories
A series of ironic, imaginative, surreal stories with female characters doing fantastical and creative things that challenge authority and preserve life in a small Argentinian town.
“What a life-giving town Cattail Stories conjures! Suspecting his own irrelevance, the mayor is overheard, “I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.” Meanwhile, all the while, Paula sang the stars to come near, Antonia (both Antonias if time was out of joint) baked bread and conversed with the full moon, Eva told a whale of a story, Carolina planted trees, Aurora instructed the police, Matilde made peerless milk for her admirers, Grandma reinvented peace-making over and over, Emilia flew her bicycle to comfort a sad child, a generous orange tree converted even the priest, and the cosmopolitan birds sang subversive songs. Even after the government and the church were installed, we all stayed. And the woman cried the river into being for the dry, dry town.” - Donna Haraway, author of Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
“Wonderfully ironic and imaginative. Cattail Stories is magical!” -- Leslie Kirk Campbell, author of the upcoming The Man With Eight Pairs of Legs & Other Stories
Cover and Book Illustrations by Andrew Ramer
Book design by Erin McElroy
Author photograph by Lisa Rofel
