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Riverhead
January 2013
On Sale: January 10, 2013
304 pages
ISBN: 1594486042
EAN: 9781594486043
Kindle: B008U45TY0
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Fiction Family Life
In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an
exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world
marked by unusual phenomena.
The eighteen
stories of Manuel Gonzales’s exhilarating first book render
the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in
prose that thrums with energy and shimmers with beauty. In
“The Artist’s Voice” we meet one of the world’s foremost
composers, a man who speaks through his ears. A hijacked
plane circles a city for twenty years in “Pilot, Copilot,
Writer.” Sound can kill in “The Sounds of Early Morning.”
And, in the title story, a man is at war with the wife he
accidentally shrank. For these characters, the phenomenal
isn’t necessarily special—but it’s often dangerous.
In slightly fantastical settings, Gonzales illustrates very
real guilt over small and large marital missteps, the
intense desire for the reinvention of self, and the powerful
urges we feel to defend and provide for the people we love.
With wit and insight, these stories subvert our expectations
and challenge us to look at our surroundings with fresh
eyes. Brilliantly conceived, strikingly original, and told
with the narrative instinct of a born storyteller, The
Miniature Wife is an unforgettable debut.
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