The Skunks

✍ Scribed by Fiona Warnick

• Book ID: 115123786
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 637 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781959030676

✦ Synopsis

"A gleaming, zany little gem."
--Annie Hartnett, author of Unlikely Animals

Reminiscent of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, Fiona Warnick's precise and tender prose captures the formative moments of a young woman's life, from the slow burn of a new crush to the swish of a skunk's tail.

Dear Skunks, I wrote. Then I got stuck. What was there to say about the skunks? Of course there was the smell--the spraying. Everyone's mind jumped to the spraying. I often forgot about the spraying entirely, which was nice because it made me feel that I wasn't like other people.

From the outside, Isabel doesn't seem to have much going on. It's the summer after college graduation and she's moved back to her hometown, where she spends her days house-sitting, babysitting, working the front desk at a yoga studio, and hanging out with her childhood friend Ellie. But on the inside, Isabel's mind is always running, always...