The Age of Discovery and Other Stories by Becky Hagenston
Brand: Mad Creek Books
Product Description
At its essence this enjoyable collection explores how nothing is ever exactly as it seems.Booklist These ingenious stories are so funny and sparkling and slyly inventive that their pain catches you by surprise like a sunburn after a day at the beach.Eric Puchner In Becky Hagenstons fourth collection the real and the fantastic collide in stories that span from Mississippi to Europe and from the recent past to the near future. The characters are sextoy sellers internet trolls parents students and babysittersall trying to make sense of a world where nothing is quite what it appears to be. A service robot makes increasingly disturbing requests. A middle school teacher is accused of witchcraftand realizes the accusations might be true. Two college students devise a way to avoid getting hit on in bars. A baker finds bizarre anomalies in his sourdough. A librarian follows her dead exhusband through the Atlanta airport. In these stories men and women confront grief danger loneliness and sometimesthe strangest discovery of allunexpected joy. Hagenston delivers a collection that is at its weird and shining heart about people discovering whatfor better or worsethey are capable of. show more
Condition : New
Author : Becky Hagenston
Weight : 296
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
Language : English
EAN : 9780814257944
ISBN10 : 0814257941
Format : Paperback Softback
Date of Publication : 20210513
Place of Publication : NA
Pagination : 192 Pages
Dimensions : 213 X 137 X 10