72 pages 2 hours read

Deadly Animals

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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Explore what the use of impersonations reveals about the characters and what they hope to gain through their constructed personas, including the nonhuman persona of the Wolf.

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The text uses many conventions of the detective fiction genre; in what ways does it subvert them, too?

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Ava describes the killer as her “fatal inversion.” What makes Ava and the killer similar and different? What prevents Ava from becoming like the destructive killer?

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