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
