Keren’s Reviews > Coyote Songs > Status Update

"The amount of pity you generate in others diminishes with every birthday. People...are like food: the closer you get to your expiration date, the less others are drawn to you" (29).

"The Mother knew that clandestine communal graves were like black holes that folks got sucked into and disappeared forever, and her husband had been thrown into one. He had been swallowed by the darkness, turned into a statistic, absorbed by the earth, vanished forever into a collective mass of decay and silence. Her husband had become empty space, a missing body, a mere memory" (17).

"They entered a strange stasis that prevented boredom, because action was always a bite away. When fishing, nothingness was full of possibility, quietness was a timeless inhalation before a scream, and inaction was just a fuse of to indeterminate length before an explosion" (10).