A short-story collection from one of America's brightest young talents. In one o
f these intensely imaginative stories a young woman's furniture walks out on her
. In another, the narrator feels compelled to deliver a takeout order that has i
ncorrectly been phoned in to her.
In a third, the petty details of a property
transaction illuminate the complicated dependences and loves of a family. Follo
wing spiralling paths towards utterly logical, entirely absurd conclusions, Galc
hen's creations occupy a dreamlike dimension, where time is fluid and identities
are best defined by the qualities they lack. The tales in this groundbreaking c
ollection are secretly in conversation with canonical stories, allowing the read
er the pleasure of discovering familiar favourites in new guises.
