A master storyteller’s vision reawakens us to the human
experience in this diverse, haunting, and unexpectedly
humorous new collection of short fiction from Simon Van
Booy—his first since Love Begins in Winter, winner of the
Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.
“She believed it was a gift to never truly know the self. We
are not who we think we are, nor how others see us. Long
before death, we die a thousand times at the hands of a
definition.”
In his first book of short stories since Love Begins in
Winter, for which he won the Frank O’Connor International
Short Story Award), bestselling author Simon Van Booy offers
a collection of stories highlighting how human genius can
emerge through acts of compassion. Through characters
including an eccentric film director, an aging Cockney
bodyguard, the teenage child of Nigerian immigrants, a
divorced amateur magician from New Jersey, and a Beijing
street vendor who becomes an overnight billionaire, Tales of
Accidental Genius contemplates individuals from different
cultures, races—rich and poor, young and old—and reveals how
faith and yearning for connection helps us all transcend
darkness of fear and misfortune.
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