Description
For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world.
Winner of the 2025 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
A neighborhood of picturesque content-creation houses perched on too-green lawns in a California desert; a meandering stampede of unleashed dogs on the streets of San Francisco; a skein of snow geese alighting in a state park in Missouri; an uncanny fundraising auction at an upscale suburban-DC prep school. Inhabiting these worlds of disconnection and dislocation are the "sad grownups" a middle-aged queer couple arguing over whether to have children, a college professor dying from cancer, two recent high school graduates plotting a robbery, a sixty-year-old counselor at a boys' summer camp sheltering herself from the realities of life-all connected more closely to the landscapes around them than to other people, searching fervently for liberation, understanding, and even happiness, wherever and however they might be found.
Author: Amy Stuber
Publisher: Stillhouse Press
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d
ISBN13: 9780996981668
ISBN10: 0996981667
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Absurdist
- Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical