These audacious stories shine with artistic nuance and fearless emotional intensity. Tragic, lyrical, hilarious, and politically controversial, they exist in a world where fact is as strange as fiction, and fiction is often disguised as fact. "The Jiri Chronicles & Other Fictions" is divided into th...

The Fast Red Road—A Plainsong is a gleeful, two-fisted plundering of the myth and pop- culture surrounding the American Indian. It is a novel fueled on pot fumes and blues, a surreal pseudo-Western, in which imitation is the sincerest form of subversion. Indians, cowboys, and outlaws are as change...

After burning up the blacktop in New Mexico with "The Fast Red Road" and rewriting Indian history on the Great Plains with "The Bird is Gone", Stephen Graham Jones now takes us to Montana. Set on a Blackfeet Indian reservation, the life of one Indian boy, Doby Saxon, is laid bare through the eyes of...

While working at a sleep lab in northern Germany, Rosemarie Ramee, a 38-year-old American neurologist, falls in love with Aslan, an eleven-year-old Turkish Cypriot. To get closer to the boy, RR undertakes a 'marriage of convenience' to the boy's uncle. But when the uncle suddenly disappears, Ramee, ...

Margo Berdeshevsky's "Beautiful Soon Enough" is a collection of hypnotic stories that capture the lives - worldly, sexual, obsessive - of twenty-three arresting women. These are snapshots and collages: stories of women on the outside, looking in; of women content to end their affairs; of young women...