Baker Matthew Why Visit America: Stories 9781250237200

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Автор: Baker Matthew
Название: Why Visit America: Stories
ISBN: 9781250237200
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1250237203
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 368
Вес: 0.54 кг.
Дата издания: 04.08.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 236 x 158 x 31
Поставляется из: США
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Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Why Visit America form an exegesis of our current political predicament, while offering an eloquent plea for connection and hope.

The citizens of Plainfield, Texas, have had it with the broke-down United States. So they vote to secede, rename themselves America in memory of their former country, and happily set themselves up to receive tourists from their closest neighbor: America. Couldnt happen? Well, it might, and so it goes in the thirteen stories in Matthew Bakers brilliantly illuminating, incisive, and heartbreaking collection Why Visit America.

The book opens with a seemingly traditional story in which the speculative element is extremely minimal--the narrator has a job that doesnt actually exist--a story that wouldnt seem much out of place in a collection of literary realism. From there the stories get progressively stranger: a young man breaks the news to his family that he is going to transition--from an analog body to a digital existence. A young woman abducts a child--her own--from a government-run childcare facility. A man returns home after committing a great crime, his sentence being that his memory--his entire life--is wiped clean.

As the book moves from universe to universe, the stories cross between different American genres: from bildungsroman to rom com, western to dystopian, including fantasy, horror, erotica, and a noir detective mystery. Read together, these parallel-universe stories create a composite portrait of the true nature of the United States and a Through the Looking-Glass reflection of who we are as a country.

Why Visit America: Stories, Baker Matthew