num_pages: 178
description: For more information visit Alternating Current: tinyurl.com/secondacts.Equal parts prose-poems flash stories riddles and mythological prologues to the lives of spent Americansstruggling murderous born again drug-addled sexual hopeful despairing soaringthis collection stands on the edge of genre definition and questions what it means to be at the cusp of living. Punchlines plays on words dad puns and yo mama jokes straddle the saddle with deep metaphorical lessons on society today making companions of dark humor and serious wit. A sance of poetics and politics this collection of glimpses into the disheveled and desperate the cerebral and celebrated the gangly and glorious conjures what it is to be American in a society as stupid as it is terrifying.Illustrated by Jacob Heustis.Short fiction from two masters of the form.NERVERanging from short to super-duper short the prose-poetic stories in Ryan Ridges and Mel Bosworths Second Acts in American Lives zig and zag fake and fade keeping the reader guessing on every page and the illustrations by Jacob Heustis are every bit as funny and surprising as the words they accompany. Its a pinball machine of a book full of bounce and light and crazy ricochets: sentences start you dont know where theyll end up and this dynamic unpredictability is what gives this collection its life and its victory.Kathleen Rooney author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
language: English
title: Second Acts in American Lives
publisher: Alternating Current Press