Best worst American : stories /
In these stories (these cities, these people) there are labyrinths, rivers and wildernesses. Voices sound slightly different than expected. There's humor, but it's going to hurt. In "On Paradise," a petshop manager flies with his cat to Las Vegas to meet his long-lost mother and...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Easthampton, Massachusetts :
Small Beer Press,
[2017].
|
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | In these stories (these cities, these people) there are labyrinths, rivers and wildernesses. Voices sound slightly different than expected. There's humor, but it's going to hurt. In "On Paradise," a petshop manager flies with his cat to Las Vegas to meet his long-lost mother and grandmother, only to find that the women look exactly like they did forty years before. In "The Spooky Japanese Girl is There For You," the spooky Japanese girl (a ghost) is there for you, then she is not. These refreshing and invigorating stories of displacement, exile and identity, of men who find themselves confused by the presence or absence of extraordinary women, jump up, demand to be read and send the reader back to the earth changed, reminded from these short stories how big the world is. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 198 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781618731241 1618731246 |