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The gnome stories / Ander Monson.

by Monson, Ander, 1975- author.

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Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020]

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Short stories, American.

9781644450123 (softcover)

1644450127 (softcover)

164 pages ; 21 cm

Weep no more over this event -- Believing in the future with the torturer's apprentice -- The Golem -- The reassurances -- In a structure simulating an owl -- This time with feeling -- It is hard not to love the starvationist's assistant -- Everyone looks better when they're under arrest -- Opportunities for intimacy -- The gnome -- Our song.

"The Gnome Stories focuses on characters who are loners in the truest sense; who are in the process of recovering from mental, physical, or emotional trauma; and who find solace - or at least a sense of purpose - in peculiar jobs and pursuits. A man whose wife has left him is robbed, so he decides to start doing his own breaking and entering, into his neighbors' homes. When another man's girlfriend is cryogenically frozen by her family after a car accident, he becomes a maintenance worker at the cryogenic facility, eavesdropping on visitors as they whisper secrets to their frozen loved ones. A woman serves as an assistant to the Starvationist, whose methods to help clients lose large amounts of weight are unorthodox, sadistic--and utterly failproof. Another woman and her robot assistant have been hired to tinker with the troubling memories inside a celebrity's brain. With The Gnome Stories, Ander Monson presents eleven unforgettable stories about oddly American situations: as surreal as an urban legend and at the same time perfectly mundane."--Provided by publisher.

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