Girl, Cow & Monk

Author: Kate Wyer Publisher: Meekling Press (2020) Open Kate Wyer's Girl, Cow & Monk and find interlinked novellas unfolding like a set of time-lapse portraits, united by their longing and inherent magic. In "Girl, Cow" a girl and her cow embark on a journey along the sea, going anywhere other than here; "Monk" follows the mysteries and austerity of monastic life, a vow of silence, desire and a (re)discovery of voice. "A girl walks into the ocean. A monk interrogates his walls. This beautiful book got into me, cast me like a rider on a slow amusement. It is calibrated to make you remember yourself—as a moving body, as a dynamic sensory index—all in precise, glowing language that skips the everyday. It invites you to imagine other ways of existing in your own time, to realize yourself anew in the context of your own skin. Its point is not transcendence but instead: a velcro disengagement from the mundane, toward a sublime, enveloping sensation: a tidal carry, a silent room, a sound