| Best Worst American: Stories Contributor(s): Martinez, Juan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1618731246 ISBN-13: 9781618731241 Publisher: Small Beer Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Fantasy - Collections & Anthologies - Fiction | Science Fiction - Collections & Anthologies |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2016030892 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.57 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award These are the best Americans, the worst Americans. In these stories (these cities, these people) there are labyrinths, rivers, 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. |