Sharp Teeth, by Toby Barlow

Toby Barlow is going to be reading from his book tonight at the Brookline Booksmith.

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Barlow’s gut-wrenching, sexy debut, a horror thriller in verse, follows three packs of feral dogs in East L.A. These creatures are in fact werewolves, men and women who can change into canine form at will (“Dog or wolf? More like one than the other/but neither exactly.”) Lark, the top dog in one of the packs who’s a lawyer in human form, has a master plan that may involve taking over the city from regular humans. Anthony Silvo, a dogcatcher and normally a loner, finds himself falling in love with a beautiful and mysterious woman. (“Standing on four legs in her fut/ she is her own brand of beast.”) A strange small man and his giant partner play tournament bridge and are deep in the drug trade. A detective, Peabody, investigates several puzzling dog-related murders. The irregular verse form with its narrative economies proves an excellent vehicle to support all these disparate threads and then tie them together in the bittersweet conclusion.


Tonight at 7 pm at:
Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard Street
Brookline