A volume of short works by a Prairie Schooner-winning writer imagines fantastical alternative histories of famous people and characters, including a Hollywood encounter between Helen Keller and Frida Kahlo, the story of Moby Dick from Ahab's perspective, and the life of Velazquez from the viewpoint of the dwarf in her seventeenth-century painting. Original.
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I dug this super hard. Differently abled (?) historical/literary figurers are re-imagined in these short stories, Anne plays fast and loose with the traditional circumstances to give delightful things like Goliath, with all the biblical language and modern understanding of PTSD and human growth hormone. Ahab gets to rant pointedly about the role the disabled get placed in contrast to the able-bodied. (I've been thinking more about physical disability and access in different space because of my bad knee and recent surgery so I appreciate an interesting rant)
