Füsun Atalay

Monkey Appetite Füsun Atalay

Just as "stories abound under a fall canopy", a woman's insights, gathered

throughout a reflective period beyond child-rearing and retirement, blossom

colourfully here. Through poems, short stories, and personal reflections,

life's intimate moments are distilled into their deeper essence as meaningful

perspectives on innocence, relationships, aging, grief, spirituality, memory,

struggle and privilege. The author's journeys through immigration,

coming of age and motherhood, in their simplicity, take us along the paths

to universal truths with the unabashed openness of childhood and the

hindsight and wisdom of older age. Monkey Appetite will appeal to the

reader who enjoys looking on life with humour, retrospect, and abandon.