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The thirteen stories in Horse Show explore how humans have used, abused, and spectacularized their equine companions throughout American history. Wrestling with themes of obsolescence, grief, and nostalgia, Bowers guides us through her museum of equine esoterica with arresting imagery, unflinching intensity, and dark humor.
If you love Lydia Millet's Love In Infant Monkeys, Elena Passarello's Animals Strike Curious Poses, Hannah Tinti's Animal Crackers, and other books that explore human/animal history through a curious yet critical lens, Horse Show is a must-read!
"If Steven Millhauser wrote a book about horses, he might have written something a little bit like Jess Bowers' fascinating short story collection Horse Show. It's meticulous, lovely, strange, and both utterly engrossing and also completely not what I'd expected when I opened up a book of horse stories." -Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You (Stories and Other Revenges)
"If Flannery O'Connor had written about horses, one might imagine it would read like Horse Show...a learning experience in both equine involvement in show business--from the early days of circus performance to modern Hollywood movies--and in the tragic realities that lay beneath the seemingly benign label of 'show horse'" -Sharon Emmerichs, author of Shield Maiden
JESS BOWERS lives in St. Louis, MO, where she works as an Associate Professor of English at Maryville University. But she's originally from York, PA, which was the first capital of the United States (so they claim) and the hometown of the rock band Live (that one’s true).
She loves writing (and reading!) fiction that explores connections and conflicts between humans and animals. She's fascinated by old photography, silent film, extinction, museums, quackery, forgotten gadgets, singing cowboys, horror, dark humor, and redefining what "historical fiction" looks like.
Her favorite books include Lydia Millet's Love in Infant Monkeys, Karen Russell's Vampires in the Lemon Grove, and anything by Richard Brautigan. When not writing, reading, or playing video games, she thinks about the hungry ghosts of silent Hollywood while riding my little yellow pony, Teddy, through the Midwestern bewilderness.
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