What is it like to be a boy who turns into a dog-on the inside? To trade bodies with a dolphin? Be pinned in a box like an exotic butterfly by a mad collector? Stephen Spotte"s background in science gives him a unique perspective in these unusual, sometimes hilarious stories, whose subject is often the thinness-and occasional permeability-of species boundaries. Spotte"s beautifully observed characters live in an uneasy relationship with their world, and each other, those who remain unmatched at the back of life"s sock drawer.