The Man Who Built Boxes
Subtitle: and other stories
Publisher: Bacon Press Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, DC, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780988877955
Copyright date: 2013
Description: A remarkable debut collection from an already accomplished storyteller
In these twelve stories, you’ll meet a remarkable cast of complex, quirky characters tangled up in the limits they’ve put on their lives. Driven by love or loneliness, like the man in the title, they’ve boxed themselves in. Frank Tavares tells their stories with humor and compassion. 

While the themes may be familiar—crumbling marriages, feuding neighbors, sparring business partners, and the endless searching for what might have been—here they become fresh, unpredictable, and surprising. This exciting debut collection from a first-rate storyteller will haunt and fascinate you long after you finish reading. You may never look at a chance pick-up in a bar the same way again. 
Source: http://www.themanwhobuiltboxes.com
Notes: US edition
Table of contents: title: My first ex-wife's third wedding --; title: The illustrated Sally --; title: The neighbors --; title: Why Jimmy Mendoza hated the late Tamale Jones --; title: The man who built boxes --; title: Max Ryland meets the devil --; title: Accident with a view --; title: Girl in a box --; title: Woman with a gun --; title: When it's over --; title: Antonio's yard --; title: Doin' the laundry --; title: Excerpt from Digging up Mr. Bradley.