Wide Eyed

(Paperback)

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In Trinie Dalton's tweaked vision of reality, psychic communications between herself and Mick Jagger, The Flaming Lips, Marc Bolan, Lou Reed and Pavement are daily occurences. Animals also populate her short stories: beavers, hamsters, salamanders, black widows, owls, llamas, bats and many more characters befriend the narrator. This collection is told by a woman compelled to divulge her secrets, fantasies and obsessions with native Californian animals, glam rock icons and horror movies. Dalton's stories show that magic and escape are always possible.

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"Trinie Dalton's voice is so charming in these stories and they fly right by, so it takes a little time to realize how deftly she is talking about death and sex and fear and love and fur and slumber parties, how lightly she touches upon heaviness, making an imprint so gentle you don't know it's there until later, when the story floats back up in your memory, as light as a butterfly or a blood-oil lilypad in the bath." - Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt"

Author Bio

Trinie Dalton lives in Los Angeles and has an MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars. She is also a visual artist and is currently curating a show about werewolves for the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. She was co-editor of Dead Girl or Whatever Your Name Is, published by McSweeney's.