Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781946154521)

With Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, award-winning author Keith Rosson once again delves into notions of family, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope, with the surefooted merging of literary fiction and magical realism he's explored in previous novels. In "Dunsmuir," a newly sober husband buys a hearse to help his wife spread her sister's ashes, while "The Lesser Horsemen" illustrates what happens when God instructs the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to go on a team-building cruise as a way of boosting their frayed morale. In "Brad Benske and the Hand of Light," an estranged husband seeks his wife's whereabouts through a fortuneteller after she absconds with a cult, and the returning soldier in "Homecoming" navigates the strange and ghostly confines of his hometown, as well as the boundaries of his own grief. With grace, imagination, and a brazen gallows humor, Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons merges the fantastic and the everyday, and includes new work as well as award-winning favorites.

Author: Keith Rosson
ISBN-10: 1946154520
ISBN-13: 9781946154521
Publisher: Meerkat Press
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2021
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.47d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/30/2020
Booklist 01/08/2021