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Last Day on Earth
A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection by Eric Puchner
Subgenres:
- Short Stories,
- Family Life,
- Coming-of-Age
This book is for you if you're into...
- Surreal family stories with offbeat premises and emotional punch
- Literary fiction that finds humor in everyday heartbreak
- Stories where coming of age never really ends
From the author of the Oprah Book Club Pick Dream State, this is a riveting and profoundly moving story collection. A boy on the edge of adolescence fears his mother might be a robot; a psychotically depressed woman is entrusted with taking her niece and nephew trick-or-treating; a reluctant dad brings his baby to a debaucherous party; a teenage boy tries to prevent his mother from putting his estranged father's dogs to sleep.
Ranging from a youth arts camp to an aging punk band's reunion tour, from a dystopian future where parents no longer exist to a ferociously independent bookstore, Last Day on Earth revolves around the endlessly complex, frequently surreal system that is family.
This collection delivers a gloriously original, utterly memorable set of stories that evoke both the comedy and tragedy of our lifelong endeavor to come of age.
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