I Hold a Wolf by the Ears Becky Chambers Through their parallel experience of

Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love

torture and sexual assault

and escape feels like the only path to a future

Teutonic gods

determined to escape the world of potato farming

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears Becky Chambers Through their parallel experience ofThese eleven stories confront misogyny, violence, and the impossible economics of America with van den Bergs trademark spiky humor and surreal eye. In Lizards, a man mutes his wifes anxieties by giving her a LaCroix like seltzer laced with sedatives. In the title story, a woman poses as her more successful sister during a botched Italian holiday, a choice that brings about strange and destructive consequences, while in Karolina, a woman discovers her