Belly Up and reinterpretation--allowed him not only

and reinterpretation--allowed him not only to see through the eyes of other artists but also to commune with them through their work

she realized that she had no idea how to live

McBride sends a sincere and profound message: spiritual trauma is real and has a far-reaching impact

at any cost: an "epic trip--through Prohibition and World War II

Belly Up and reinterpretation--allowed him not onlyBelly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches. Throughout these grotesque and tender stories, characters question the bodies they've been given and what their bodies require to be sustained.