The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic

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The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic

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Christopher Merkner is a Shirley Jackson for the contemporary Midwest, where the ties of family and community intersect darkly with suburban American life. In these stories, an enraged village gaslights unsuspecting vacationers and a young man delays a impending confession, fondling the nostrils of his mother’s pet pig. Sharp and uneasy, for these inheritors of tradition, that which binds them most closely—offering stability and identity and comfort—are precisely the qualities that set them back, pull them down, burden, limit, and ruin them.

ISBN

978-1-56689-338-1

Publication Date

1-2014

Publisher

Coffee House Press

City

Minneapolis, MN

Disciplines

Fiction

The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic

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