The Mating Season (Paperback)

"[A] richly written tale."---"US Weekly"
Zorka Carpenter lives a life completely devoted to animals. In a glass house on a hill she spends her days absorbed in her menagerie. Enigmatic architect Richard Dorsey has spent his life trying to escape the fame he garnered in his youth. Living in a world of his own construction, he finds solace only in the past. When these two worlds collide in a magical tryst, both Zorka and Richard are challenged to escape their isolated worlds and find connection in each other's hearts. Astonishingly inventive, Alex Brunkhorst's The Mating Season is a dazzling work of the imagination and a piercing look at the human heart.
"A whimsical and imaginative novel about loneliness and love."---"Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"
"Alex Brunkhorst suspends her love story in a web of bewitching whimsy. At once playful and heartfelt, this debut of an impressive imagination is a charmer. "---Christina Schwarz, author of" Drowning Ruth"
"Welcome to an enchanted kingdom---a world where women talk to their furniture and bugs are household pets.... The Mating Season is a rare gem: extraordinarily inventive, full of irrepressible humor and warmth. Alex Brunkhorst writes like no one else. Her voice is as welcome and refreshing as a cool drink of spring water. This beautiful book sparkles with charm."---Lisa Dierbeck, author of "One Pill Makes You Smaller"
"A strange and gorgeous novel...You can feel your heart expanding as you read it."---Joseph Weisberg, author of "10th Grade"
Alex Brunkhorst graduated from Georgetown University. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she currently lives in Los Angeles. "The Mating Season" is her first novel.