Holiday Reinhorn

Big Cats opens with "Charlotte," in which a young girl with a broken pelvis spies on her voluptuous neighbor during a long, hot summer night, setting the tone of irrepressible curiosity and yearning that is evident throughout the collection. In "Get Away from Me, David," a bank manager tries to overcome his haunted past as he deals with the aftermath of a minor earthquake and the body of a customer who died in the lobby. "Big Cats" pits two teenage girls against each other in an escalating catfight at the zoo where they work, culminating in a blowout in front of the lion cage.

“In a world of missing fathers, he is a father to many people, and it has been this way since he was very young, even though Emmanuel makes a habit of admitting to everyone that he is the furthest thing from a minister or a saint.” Holiday Reinhorn is the author of Big Stories (Free Press, 2005). Work from her newest collection of stories-in-progress has appeared or is upcoming in American Short Fiction (Fall 2018 and Spring 2021) and in the September 2020 Issue of Narrative Magazine.