Bobcat

Like a delicately prepared meal, Rebecca Lee's "Bobcat" is a rich medley of subtle yet striking details. "Bobcat" is a finely wrought study of the complexities and contradictions at the heart of modern life-of the fictions in which we shelter ourselves and the quiet devastation that arrives when hard truths come knocking. "Bobcat" displays Lee's remarkable gift for drawing revelatory insights out of seemingly commonplace occurrences. Rebecca Lee is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The City Is a Rising Tide and the short story collection Bobcat and Other Stories. She has been published in The Atlantic and Zoetrope, and in 2001 she received a National Magazine Award for her short fiction. Originally from Saskatchewan, Lee is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is now a professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.