Staff Picks: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction)

ItÆs FatherÆs Day 1972 and a young boyÆs dad takes him to visit a string of unimpressive ex-girlfriends that could have been his mother; the unconventional detective work of a koan-speaking, Kung Fuûloving uncle solves a case of arson during a pancake breakfast; and a former geology professor, recovering from addiction, finds himself sharing a taxicab with specters from a Jim Crowûera lynching. Set in and around the fictional town of Steepleburg, South Carolina, the loosely tied stories in George SingletonÆs Staff Picks place sympathetic, oddball characters in absurd, borderline surreal situations that slowly reveal the angst of southern history with humor and bite. In the tradition of Donald Barthelme, T. C. Boyle, Flannery OÆConnor, and Raymond Carver, Singleton creates lingering, darkly comedic tales by drawing from those places where familiarity and alienation coexist. A remarkable and distinct effort from an acclaimed chronicler of the South, Staff Picks reaffirms SingletonÆs gift for crafting short story collections that both deliver individual gems and shine as a whole.

• | Author: George Singleton
• | Publisher: Lsu Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 06, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 216 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 080717033X
• | ISBN-13: 9780807170335