Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection

Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection

2009 • 205 pages

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)

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