If every story is born of a question--How did we get here? How do you make your arm do that?--the stories in Geoff Wyss's How search for answers to the mysteries of an astonishing range of characters. The narrator of "How I Come to Be Here at the GasFast" explains why he hasn't left a truck stop in the two days since he scratched a winning lottery ticket. In "How to Be a Winner," a sports consultant browbeats a high school football team with his theory of history and a justification of his failed coaching career. Lost in the mazes they've made of themselves, Wyss's...
If every story is born of a question--How did we get here? How do you make your arm do that?--the stories in Geoff Wyss's How search...
"Hibernate "is a big-hearted and brutal story collection. In these globe-spanning stories, Elizabeth Eslami follows ordinary men and women who slowly awaken to hard choices. A fishing trip forces two Montana brothers to grow up in ways they never could have imagined. A Sudanese immigrant begins a new life with his girlfriend in America, only to find himself pulled toward his mother s past transgressions. A group of tourists visits an Indian pueblo and realizes their tour guide isn t at all who they expected. A shipwrecked captain and his men cling to the company of narwhals and Eskimos. And...
"Hibernate "is a big-hearted and brutal story collection. In these globe-spanning stories, Elizabeth Eslami follows ordinary men and women who slowly ...
