title: Us
author: Kimball, Michael
description: "Michael Kimball is a hero of contemporary fiction." -Sam LipsyteA husband wakes up to find his wife has had a seizure during the night. His wife is rushed to a hospital where she lies in a coma. By day, the husband sits beside his wife and tries to think of ways to wake her up. The husband sleeps in the chair next to his wife's bedside dreaming that she will wake up. He wants to be able to take her back home.
  Michael Kimball
   is author of
  The Way the Family Got Away
  ,
  Dear Everybody
  , and the forthcoming
  Ray
  . ""