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The Miniature Wife and Other Stories
Manuel Gonzales
Riverhead
February 2014
On Sale: February 4, 2014
320 pages
ISBN: 1594632278
EAN: 9781594632273
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Fiction Family Life
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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