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It's been a year since Bridget and her teenage son have been home. Living in motel rooms, they now drive from shopping mall to shopping mall, posing as casting directors on the lookout for kids with star potential--that is, kids with parents too eager for fame to notice they're being conned. But on Halloween weekend, Bridget's pursuit of a mark leads them to a haunted house deep in a gated community, where her lies will endanger them both and ...

It's been a year since Bridget and her teenage son have been home. Living in motel rooms, they now drive from shopping mall to shopping mall, posing as casting directors on the lookout for kids with star potential--that is, kids with parents too eager for fame to notice they're being conned. But on Halloween weekend, Bridget's pursuit of a mark leads them to a haunted house deep in a gated community, where her lies will endanger them both and ...

Reagan, Nixon, and Goldwater, but the presence of these ghosts transports Allardice's novel into a literary netherworld that is always captivating and every once in a while genuinely spooky. This tale of a young artist lost in the woods of America's political subconscious is above all a pleasure to read, at times recalling satirists like Vonnegut and Heller while staking out entirely new territory.

A marvelously offbeat, funny, irrepressible, endlessly inventive story of art and life. With philosophical mischief and earnest impiety, this island tale, like its Shakespearean antecedents, asks deep questions about where the rehearsal and performance of our existence trespasses into the thing itself.

Mix Nabokov's Pale Fire with James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia" for an anarchic comic novel by a Donald Barthelme Prize-winning author (Jim Krusoe).English professor Paul McWeeney's sister has written a book accusing their late father of murdering Elizabeth Short in the notorious unsolved Black Dahlia case of 1947. Paul has every right to be outraged. It's based on the highly questionable memories her therapist has allegedly helped her to recove...

In the spirit of Motherless Brooklyn or Remains of the Day, Allardice offers up a searing and memorable debut.When Paul McWeeney's older sister writes a book accusing their late father of committing the gruesome Black Dahlia murder, based on memories her new therapist has helped her recover--or imagine--he sits down to write a cease and desist letter to the publishers. Paul hopes to refute his sister's claims about their father's role in the i...

From an award-winning author, this short novel satirizes the pressures of modern family life, from urban organics to political tracking apps to the inscrutable rules of preschool birthday events.