A Lovely Appetite//Stories//Alex Aro

Throughout the sixteen stories in this collection by Alex Aro, we encounter characters that question both the world and themselves. Some question desire, ultimately asking: what is it that I truly want? Others question love, anger, sadness, dreams and the truth of their realities. Regardless of their questions, each character yearns for meaning, seeking validity for the reasons why they exist in the world.
In "Body Language" we witness the dissolution of a relationship as the girlfriend begins removing pieces of her body in an attempt to reach her boyfriend. "Skin" shows us a man so obsessed with the skin of another woman that everything else in his life becomes hardened. And in "Devour", lovers physically eat one another and sport the wounds as signs of affection. But what happens when the hunger runs out?
The stories in A Lovely Appetite show us worlds and characters both strange and familiar, but will leave us questioning those same uncertainties and what it means to live.