“In the phenomenal Organ Meats two friends are bound by a red string dog bloodlines and the
violence that is being a girl” ( Ms. magazine)—from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35
honoree and author of Gods of Want. “ Organ Meats possesses something of the febrile
intensity of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels their laser focus on female friendship but
instead of Naples K-Ming Chang’s wild girls inhabit a magical universe of talking dogs and
shape-shifting body parts.”— The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD
FINALIST • AN AUTOSTRADDLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Best friends Anita and Rainie find refuge by
an old sycamore tree with its neighboring lot of stray dogs who have a mysterious ability to
communicate with humans. The girls learn that they are preceded by generations of dog-headed
women and woman-headed dogs whose bloodlines bind them together. Anita convinces Rainie to
become a dog with her tying a collar of red string around each of their necks to preserve
their kinship forever. But when the two girls are separated Anita sinks into a dreamworld that
only Rainie knows how to rescue her from. As Anita’s body begins to rot it is up to Rainie to
rebuild Anita’s body and keep her friend from being lost forever. Filled with ghosts and
bodily entrails this is a story about the horror and beauty of intimacy written in K-Ming
Chang’s signature poetic and visceral lore.
