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Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker: Six Essays
Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker: Six Essays
Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker: Six Essays
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Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker: Six Essays

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In this provocative essay collection, the author “leans into her roles as both victim and predator [with] prose that’s casual and cool and often funny” (The New York Times).

In six wide-ranging essays, Kathleen Hale traces some of the most treacherous fault lines in modern America—from sexual assault to Internet trolling, from environmental illness to our own animal nature. From hunting wild hogs in Florida to a standoff with an anonymous blogger, Hale takes no prisoners and fears no subject.

“First I Got Pregnant. Then I Decided to Kill the Mountain Lion” recounts the month Hale spent tracking a wild cat in the Hollywood Hills while pregnant. “Prey” tells the troubling story of her sexual assault as a freshman in college. Through these and other essays, Hale wields razor-sharp wit, deep empathy, and daring honesty, even in detailing some of the most difficult moments of her life.
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Release dateJun 4, 2019
ISBN9780802146915
Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker: Six Essays
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Kathleen Hale

Kathleen Hale was born and raised in Wisconsin. She graduated from Harvard in 2010. This is her first novel.

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    I was intending to read only free samples on my Kindle all night, and not buy a thing - but this sample left me in the middle of the first essay with such a cliffhanger, there was no way I could leave it. So I actually bought this thing and read the whole thing, and ended up grateful it was only six essays.The first one is about how the author couldn't stop obsessing over this possibly-fake person who has given her a bad review on Goodreads. Apparently there is a world of book bloggers on Goodreads and elsewhere in the blogosphere who can make or break a book, and get very personal about it; and there is a world of people out there who cannot simply shut down their dang computer before things get wacky (that I knew).NONE OF IT IS REAL, PEOPLE, I want to say - go step outside and breathe the fresh air!So the next essay was about the author's molestation in a shady massage parlor when she was a college freshman; and the jury trial she participated in to keep the man behind bars. This was gripping and sad. But she kept dropping one-sentence paragraphs of foreboding that didn't end up leading much of anywhere.Then there was a strange one about hunting and killing a feral hog I didn't understand or enjoy. Then one about attending a Miss America pageant, which I enjoyed more; then a couple more wacky ones, including one about searching for a mountain lion, to end the mini-book.I am usually really into the personal woman's essay, but I don't relate much to Hale and her weird dangerous wild animal obsessions.

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