num_pages: 178
description: The Safety of Objects, A.M Homes' first collection of short stories, is as hilarious, perverse and extraordinary as all of Homes' books. In one of the stories, a girl's blonde Barbie doll seduces her teenaged brother in an intense episode of erotic obsession; in others a couple go off the rails and smoke crack while their children are staying with their Grandmother; and a lawyer seeks revenge on his boss by urinating into his potted plant every evening. The stories are both bizarre and believable, very funny but also frightening and sad.
language: English
title: The Safety of Objects
titlecomplete: The Safety of Objects
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Americana, Fiction, Short Stories, Adult Fiction, The United States Of America, Short Story Collection, Contemporary
ratings_count: 4169
publisher: W.W. Norton & Company