Turf: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781619029347)

"Twenty-two often witty, sometimes-disquieting short stories . . . Autobiography and imagination walking hand in hand into the sunset." --Kirkus Reviews

Through her three story collections and two novels, Elizabeth Crane's singular literary vision has created worlds of characters standing boldly in the face of their complicated circumstances. And that has never been truer than in her new collection, Turf.

The end of the world as seen through a young couple in Brooklyn, who find a baby in a bucket on their front step; a group of geniuses who meet every Wednesday, able to unlock all the secrets of the universe except for the unknowable mystery of love; a woman and her dog walker whose friendship is uprooted by an incident at the park; these are dark, intriguing vistas explored in Crane's glowing collection. For as places change, and people come and go, these stories in Turf remind us that it is the unchanging nature of the human heart that connects us all.

"[Crane's] stories are fun and bizarre and wonderful and so, so sneaky . . . Elizabeth Crane mines the everyday and reveals what we're missing. It's unsettling. It's hilarious. It's . . . beyond. And you just know she's having a great time, because suddenly you are, too." --Lindsay Hunter, Electric Literature

"A daring piece of literature delicately teetering between story and observation . . . Crane demonstrates insight into our deepest fears and desires and what makes people tick." --Publishers Weekly

Author: Elizabeth Crane
ISBN-10: 1619029340
ISBN-13: 9781619029347
Publisher: Soft Skull
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2017
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 04/24/2017
Booklist 05/01/2017 pg. 60
Foreword 08/15/2017