Bird Eat Bird, Katrina Best’s first book of short stories,is a funny, smart, offbeat, and insightful collection thatexplores themes that are equally poignant and hilarious:a middle-aged Cockfosters housewife decides totravel to Albuquerque in search of enlightenment; athirty-year-old woman who still lives at home anticipatesthe experience of a third date; a teenaged vegetariansupermarket cashier struggles to scan a packageof offal; an inscrutable pelican in a crowded Londonpark decides to try something different for dinner.These artful stories are tinged with social commentaryand reflect their author in that they featurecharacters and sensibilities from both Britain andCanada.

Katrina Best is originally from the U.K. and now lives in Montreal, where she works as a story editor, screenwriter, and script analyst. She previously spent several years in Vancouver, where she worked on a few lowbudget Canadian TV series, gained her citizenship, and learned the true meaning of “incessant rain.”

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