An unsettling, wildly imaginative collection of Stories 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.
He lives in Tucson, where he teaches at the University of Arizona..
About the Author Ander Monson is the author of Other Electricities, a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and four essay collections, including I Will Take the Answer.
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.
Another woman and her robot assistant have been hired to tinker with the troubling memories inside a celebrity\'s brain.
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.
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 man whose wife has left him is robbed, so he decides to start doing his own breaking and entering, into his neighbors\' homes.
An unsettling, wildly imaginative collection of Stories 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
