Best Worst American: Stories

by Juan Martinez

Book Overview

Winner of the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award

These are the best Americans, the worst Americans. In these stories (these cities, these people) there are labyrinths, rivers, wildernesses. Voices sound slightly different than expected. There's humor, but it's going to hurt.

In On Paradise, a petshop manager flies with his cat to Las Vegas to meet his long-lost mother and grandmother, only to find that the women look...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1618731246
• ISBN13: 9781618731241
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Small Beer Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"