Big Cats: Stories

Big Cats opens with Charlotte, in which a young girl with a broken pelvis spies on her voluptuous neighbor during a long, hot summer night, setting the tone of irrepressible curiosity and yearning that is evident throughout the collection. In Get Away from Me, David, a bank manager tries to overcome his haunted past as he deals with the aftermath of a minor earthquake and the body of a customer who died in the lobby. Big Cats pits two teenage girls against each other in an escalating catfight at the zoo where they work, culminating in a blowout in front of the lion cage.

Author: Holiday Reinhorn
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 07/06/2005
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780743272940

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2005 pg. 502
Publishers Weekly 05/30/2005 pg. 35
Ingram Advance 07/01/2005 pg. 44
Booklist 06/01/2005 pg. 1756
Vanity Fair 08/01/2005 pg. 70
New York Times 08/21/2005 pg. 21

About the Author
Holiday Reinhorn is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop; the recipient of a Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction and a Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and a finalist for the PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award. A nominee for both the Pushcart Prize and the anthology Best New American Voices, she lives in Van Nuys, California. Her stories have appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Other Voices, Northwest Review, and other literary magazines