I was away to London for literary debauchery; now I am back in Cambridge to attend a bookstore bankruptcy sale.
Helpful hint: if you wish to purchase Lessons in Taxidermy at the Borders closing sale, it has been filed under “cookery.”
Poor little book – misunderstood by the publishers (who largely want it to be “inspirational” when it is in fact “subversive”), shelved incorrectly by the stores (generally under “parenting” or “disease” or “sports and fishing” instead of, um, anywhere accurate), distressing to those who appear in the pages (or who have since formed an emotional attachment to me “the person” as opposed to “the character”).
Though librarians like it, and that is the highest possible compliment.
