God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780268102258)

Kellie Wells is a writer of startling imagination whose "phantasmal stories," Booklist says, "shimmer with a dreamlike vibrancy." God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna, Wells's second collection of short stories and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, is populated with the world's castoffs, cranks, and inveterate oddballs, the deeply aggrieved, the ontologically challenged, the misunderstood mopes that haunt the shadowy wings of the world's main stage. Here you will find a teacup-sized aerialist who tries to ingest the world's considerable suffering; a lonely god growing ever lonelier as the Afterlife swells with monkeys and other improbable occupants; a father fluent in the language of the Dead who has difficulty communicating with his living son; and Death himself, a moony adolescent with a tender heart and a lack of ambition. God-haunted and apocalyptic, comic and formally inventive, these stories give lyrical voice to the indomitability of the everyday underdog, and they will continue to resonate long after the last word has been read.

Author: Kellie Wells
ISBN-10: 0268102252
ISBN-13: 9780268102258
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2017
Pages: 188
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2017