HOW TO CARRY BIGFOOT HOME

The stories in Chris Tarry's debut story collection, How To Carry Bigfoot Home (Red Hen Press, spring 2015) examine the frailty of the human experience. From an out-of-work dragon-slaying father, to a family arguing aboard a rocketship that's about to be launched into space, the stories in this collection use unique settings and humor to explore very human truths. Everyone has their own personal monsters, problems that are carried home and laid bare for the people we love most. There is the public self and the private heart, the way we are and the way we wish to be. How To Carry Bigfoot Home is an examination of that journey, the search to reconcile the inner with the outer. It aims to explore the cracks in our human armor, the difficult process of enacting real change in our lives, and the sometimes insurmountable forces that make who we are (and who we become) feel almost predetermined. Almost.