If Lynda Schor's *Appetites* doesn't whet your appetite for the nightmarish and bizarre in everyday life, I don't know what will. The lower-middle-class artist-mother who rises from death to prepare dinner for her husband and children in "My Death" is a character you'll never forget, as is the welfare mother of three who cooks for her well-to-do lover and his political cronies.

In stories that are sexy and funny, Lynda Schor delights and horrifies and amazes.

Lynda Schor's Appetites is a collection of short stories where the regular old everyday world of women, men, and families is full of strange and sometimes shocking events, but every shock is accompanied by this weird feeling of familiarity--as if this is the real world too!