The Gnome Stories: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781644450123)

An unsettling, wildly imaginative collection of stories

The Gnome Stories focuses on characters who are loners in the truest sense; who are in the process of recovering from mental, physical, or emotional trauma; and who find solace--or at least a sense of purpose--in peculiar jobs and pursuits.

A man whose wife has left him is robbed, so he decides to start doing his own breaking and entering, into his neighbors' homes. When another man's girlfriend is cryogenically frozen by her family after a car accident, he becomes a maintenance worker at the cryogenic facility, eavesdropping on visitors as they whisper secrets to their frozen loved ones. A woman serves as an assistant to the Starvationist, whose methods to help clients lose large amounts of weight are unorthodox, sadistic--and utterly failproof. Another woman and her robot assistant have been hired to tinker with the troubling memories inside a celebrity's brain.

With The Gnome Stories, Ander Monson presents eleven unforgettable stories about oddly American situations: as surreal as an urban legend and at the same time perfectly mundane.

Author: Ander Monson
ISBN-10: 1644450127
ISBN-13: 9781644450123
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2020
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.60w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 12/02/2019
Booklist 01/01/2020 pg. 35