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The opening story of MONA, inspired by the Museum of Old and New Art located in Hobart, Tasmania, sets the stage for this collection of short stories that adds an Australian flavor to Colin Heston's acclaimed The Tommie Felon Show. As one reviewer of that collection noted "...vivid and real, some of the stories seem to jump out of the pages... engaging, hilarious, unique... a commentary on human desires, shortcomings and the society we live in.... one has to look beyond the words and the events in these stories to really appreciate them." (Readers' Favorite). The stories range across many styles, prose poems, jottings that are almost aphorisms, classic stories of human emotion and the contradictions of human existence, dystopian themes and settings, all engaging, never dull. The stories in this volume are: 1. MONA. 2. The Tommie Felon Show. 3. Easter Story. 4. Veggies. 5. Wombattered. 6. Death at the Y. 7. Seductio ad absurdum. 8. Head's Up 9. Parodisiac. 10. A Meeting of Relative. 11. Leap of Faith. 12. Civilization. 13. Deconstruction. 14. Fake Truth. 15. Secret of the Sand. 16. Mixed Blessings. 17. Rounding Error.
One wife's tale of life, love and liberty.
From Pola Oloixarac, the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations, comes Mona, in which success as a "writer of color" proves to be a fresh hell for a young Latin American woman at a literary conference in Sweden. Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity--a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings--she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. When she is nominated for "the most important literary award in Europe," Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, so she trades the temptations of California for a small, gray village in Sweden, close to the Arctic Circle. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jet-lagged--and mostly male--competitors, arriving from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran, and Colombia. Isolated as they are, the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back, and hop in bed together. All the while, Mona keeps stumbling across the mysterious traces of a violence she cannot explain. As her adventures in Scandinavia unfold, Mona finds that she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up with them in the middle of nowhere. In Mona, Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic, scabrous, and ultimately jaw-dropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she does and does not belong. A survivor of both patronization and bizarre sexual encounters, Mona is a new kind of feminist. But her past won't stay past, and strange forces are working to deliver her the test of a lifetime.
Mona is the typical high school senior or is she? all her friends are worried about her strange behavior. She secretly has multiple personality disorder that has taken over her life, her violent actions are a concern, she must be helped, the killings around town have her friends even more suspicious, they try to help but does she end up in a mental institute or end up dead?
Monarch Butterfly Facts and Information - A Monarch butterfly lays about 400 eggs on milkweed leaves. The Monarch usually lays one egg per plant. - Monarch caterpillars only like to eat milkweed leaves. If you remove them from their milkweed food source they will die. - The male Monarch is usually larger than the female. It has two black dots on its wings. The female has thick black vein lines. - An adult Monarch has an average life span of 4 to 8 weeks. However, there are some Monarchs that can live anywhere from 8 to 9 months. This long life span is attributed to delayed sexual maturity. These Monarchs migrate to M xico to spend their winter vacation. - Monarchs become toxic (poison) to birds by feeding on milkweed plants. - Milkweed is a common weed found all over the United States. However, tropical milkweed can only be found in tropical areas. - Monarch caterpillars change into Monarch butterfly. This is known as metamorphosis. - Monarchs are insects. The body of a monarch is divided into three segments, it has six legs, a head, thorax and abdomen. - Monarch butterflies rest with their wings together. - 5 million Monarch butterflies from western North America head for a small number of cities scattered along the coast of California. 100 million Monarch butterflies from eastern part of the country head south to Michoac n in Central M xico. - The longest recorded flight of a Monarch butterfly is over 3,000 miles. While migrating, it can cover 80 miles a day. - The Monarch makes its migratory flight at speeds up to 11 miles per hour. It travels 16 or 17 feet above the ground. - Butterflies range in size. The tiniest of butterflies can be 1/8 inches in length. While some of the largest butterflies can flourish up to almost 12 inches in length. - Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees. - Butterflies can see red, and yellow. - Some Monarchs live their entire lives in tropical locations such as Florida, Southern Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Datos Informativos sobre las mariposas Monarcas - Una mariposa Monarca pone alrededor de cuatrocientos huevos en plantas de asclepia. Generalmente pone uno por planta. - La larva de una Monarca solamente le gusta comer hojas de asclepia, si se remueven de esa comida morir an. - La mariposa Monarca masculina tiene dos puntos negros en sus alas y la femenina tiene una l neas de venas m s ancha. La mariposa masculina suele ser m s grande. - El t rmino de vida de una Monarca adulta es normalmente de cuatro a ocho semanas, excepto aquellos que entran en una madurez sexual tard a y emigran a M xico para pasar las vacaciones de invierno. Esas pueden vivir de ocho a nueve meses. - Monarcas se convierten en t xicos (veneno) para p jaros por estar alimentadas por plantas de asclepias. - Asclepia es una planta com n que se encuentra en todo los Estados Unidos, la planta de asclepia tropical se puede encontrar en areas tropicales. - Larvas Monarcas cambian a mariposas Monarcas, este cambio se llama metamorfosis. - La Monarca es un insecto. Tiene seis patas y un cuerpo dividido en tres segmentos, cabeza, t rax, y abdomen. - Las mariposas Monarcas de oeste de Am rica del Norte vuelan a ciudades peque as por separado. Por las costas de California cien millones de mariposas Monarcas de la parte este de el pa s vuelan al sur de Michoc n en el centro de M xico. - El viaje m s largo grabado de una mariposa Monarca es de tres mil millas, mientras emigran pueden, recorrer hasta 80 millas por d a. - Las mariposas Monarcas hacen su viaje migratorio a una velocidad hasta de once millas por hora. Viajan de dieciseis o decisiete pies por encima de la tierra. - Las mariposas Monarcas varian en tama o de un octavo de pulgada hasta una grande de alrededor de doce pulgadas. - Las mariposas no pu
One of the coolest literary debuts of the year - sexy, funny and thrillingly provocative
Mona
APILA Ediciones
2024
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”På en gang en satirisk komedie, et rystende psykologisk portræt af en kvindes opløsning og et filosofisk anklageskrift. Læs den og bliv overrasket.” – Siri Hustvedt Mona er en ung peruansk forfatter, der lever et liv på kanten. Da hun for sin debutroman bliver nomineret til en fornem svensk litteraturpris, og en medstuderende samtidig efter en fest efterlader hende bevidstløs på en togperron, udskifter hun Californien med en skovsø i Sverige. I det idylliske svenske landskab er hun i nogle dage del af en gruppe internationale og meget selvoptagede forfattere, der holder hinanden i ånde erotisk og intellektuelt, mens de venter på juryens afgørelse af, hvem af dem der skal have den prestigefulde pris. Mona tuller rundt på festivalen i sin valiumbedøvede tilstand, indtil mødet med en lyshåret svensker får historien om de mange blå mærker på hendes krop til at træde frem af tågen. Med Mona tegner den argentinske forfatter Pola Oloixarac et fascinerende portræt af en forfatter med ”farvet-latina-inka-ikke-hvid” baggrund og hendes liv i den amerikansk-europæiske intellektuelle elite.