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Are You Here For What I'm Here For? (Paperback)
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Are You Here For What I'm Here For? (Paperback)
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Readers will be intrigued by the way these stories transgress the
boundaries of the uncanny and the real, incorporating the
ever-present threat of global pandemics (including encephalitis
lethargica, described by Oliver Sacks in Awakenings), natural
disasters (including the infamous 1889 flood of Johnstown, PA,
which occurred after a dam failure and resulted in the deaths of
over 2,200 people), and the radical therapeutic communities of the
1960s and '70s that transformed into the profitable, pseudo-medical
and religious, self-help programs of today. Brian Booker is an Iowa
Writers' Workshop graduate whose fiction has been published by Vice
and in major literary journals and magazines such as the New
England Review, Tin House, One Story, and Conjunctions. This
well-honed collection should be a breakout debut. Bellevue has
developed a reputation of excellence with short story collections.
Recent collections have been reviewed on the front page of the New
York Times Book Review, on NPR's All Thing Considered and Morning
Edition (by Nancy Pearl), and in the pages of O, The Oprah Magazine
and Elle. They have also been included on Amazon.com's Best Books
of the Month list and named as Library Journal and Shelf Awareness
Best Books of the Year.
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