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MacLeish Sq. is a tale, real or imagined, of awakened remorse and familial longing recounted by an aging recluse when his life is abruptly reversed by a young visitor-captive to a mythical past of his own creation-who insinuates that he and the narrator are unlikely strangers.

Intriguing, Interlocking Stories

Brother Carnival is the tale of a narrator's anguished quest to find a missing brother by probing that sibling's story excerpts for clues as to his whereabouts, while on a more arresting level the novel portrays the odyssey of one who is reconciling to his lost self.

In Oh, Don't Ask Why, Dennis Must's dark humor and use of jarringly raw language confront a number of anxieties and complexities with which his characters grapple. From overwhelming sorrow to suicidal reflection, this compilation of stories reaches deep into the internal and touches readers to the core.

The World's Smallest Bible chronicles the seriocomic boyhood of Ethan and Jeremiah Mueller in mill town Pennsylvania during the height of World War II. As they lose friends and neighbors to the front lines, the boys try to make sense of the mounting darkness with their imaginations-except in their world, no one ever dies. In a private, laconic language, they invent stories that mirror the irrational world around them: a chaplain with bad news ...

Honor, an orphan, finds her way to the Victorian boarding house where she thinks her mother might have birthed her. World War II has just ended, which alerted many Americans to the world beyond, but Honor and Billy's lives are limited to the dead-end town of DeForest Junction, Ohio, and its nearby notcherie, where exotic wemen sell their bodies to the rail men. Alongside her mixed-race "cousin" Billy, Honor grows to womanhood, cared for by Mis...

Honor, an orphan, finds her way to the Victorian boarding house where she thinks her mother might have birthed her.

In Oh, Don't Ask Why, Dennis Must's dark humor and use of jarringly raw language confront a number of anxieties and complexities with which his characters grapple. From overwhelming sorrow to suicidal reflection, this compilation of stories reaches deep into the internal and touches readers to the core.