Turf
Subtitle: stories
By: by Elizabeth Crane
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781619029347
Subjects: End of the world; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Through her three story collections and two novels, Elizabeth Crane's singular literary vision has created worlds of characters standing boldly in the face of their complicated circumstances. Blazing through states, cities, towns, continents, Crane fearlessly pivots from micro to macro, humor to tragedy, past to present, mixing an off kilter sensibility with a heartbreaking reality, guiding us into the fringed and often fantastical lives of her characters. And that has never been truer than in her new collection, Turf. The end of the world as seen through a young couple in Brooklyn, who find a baby in a bucket on their front step; a group of geniuses who meet every Wednesday, able to unlock all the secrets of the universe except for the unknowable mystery of love; a woman and her dog walker whose friendship is uprooted by an incident at the park; these are dark, intriguing vistas explored in Crane's glowing collection. For as places change, and people come and go, these stories in Turf remind us that it is the unchanging nature of the human heart that connects us all"--
Table of contents: title: Everywhere, now --; title: The genius meetings --; title: Star babies --; title: Roosters --; title: Here everything's better --; title: Some concerns --; title: Where time goes --; title: Looking --; title: All the wings of the world --; title: Mr. and Mrs. P are married --; title: Best friends seriously forever --; title: Old friends --; title: Justin Bieber's hair in a box --; title: Stella's thing --; title: Notes for an important American story --; title: Heroes --; title: Turf --; title: Video --; title: Wind --; title: We collect things --; title: Today in post-apocalyptic problems --; title: Notes for a dad story.