| A Glutton for Stories
Eating Mythos Soup--poemstories for Laura is a collection of fifty-two wild and diverse stories, ranging from everyday life to every night dreams. They are about the tellers' fears and hopes, their guilt and joy. Some of the stories have tidy plots; others are mood pieces. They are about birthing and dying, food and breast milk, and sex and love. They're about working and dreaming and the human heart and mind. Some of the storytellers are modern and specific--a virgin buying lingerie at Macy's. Others are archetypical--a clown in a bear suit. But they are all as human as can be.
What connects these stories by all these different tellers is that the stories are all told to Laura. Each story is prefaced by a description of this remarkable woman. And who is Laura? She is the powerful, raw, beautiful, and very much alive receiver of all these stories. She is sexual and nourishing. She loves to laugh and she's what's known in some cultures as a "filth eater." Her role is to hear the most profound, secret, dark stories of people, and to swallow these stories and digest them and excrete them. She is what she eats. She revels in the stuff of human dreams.
Eating Mythos Soup is unflinching and fun. It takes great joy in language and in the human spirit. There is a shocker--the jolt that comes from the candid truth--on every page. With all its wit and power, Eating Mythos Soup, is wise, encouraging humans to accept themselves and be who they are, to tell their stories and live their lives fully.
About the Author
Kim Pearson is a writer specializing in helping others write their memoirs through her company, Primary Sources. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines. She lives and writes in Issaquah, Washington. |
