"If Kissing a Tree Surgeon were a mashed potato, it would be an ecclesiastical cloud above the Vatican, which the Pope would carefully analyze to comprehend the Palestinian, Israeli, lesbian, librarian and transgender characters who have occasionally been criticized, kissed, stalked, enlightened and tormented in my collection of short stories." This is how author Eleanor levine responded to the Monkey Bicycle prompt to compare her book to a weird thing. As a matter of fact, her book is a collection of weird - and funny, strange but everyday things and people - shuffled together, dealt and played like a Tarot spread. If this sounds intriguing, by all means read!