American Morons

World Fantasy Award nominee 2007.

From the author of the acclaimed novel The Snowman's Children and the award-winning collection The Two Sams comes American Morons, a new collection of dazzling and haunting tales...

Two traveling college students confront their disintegrating relationship and the new American reality in a breakdown lane along the Italian Superstrade. A woman chases the ghost of her neglectful father to a vanished amusement park at the end of the Long Beach pier. Two recently retired teachers learn just how much Los Angeles has taken from them.

In these atmospheric, wide-ranging, surprisingly playful, and deeply mournful stories, grandkids and widows, ice cream-truck drivers and judges, travelers and invalids all discover – and sometimes even survive – the everyday losses from which the most vengeful ghosts so often spring.

Contents:

• American Morons
• Like a Lily in a Flood
• Flowers on Their Bridles, Hooves in the Air
• Safety Clowns
• Devil's Smile
• Transitway
• The Muldoon
• Story Notes