Title: The Man Who Built Boxes
Subtitle: and other stories
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. 
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  [1]: http://www.themanwhobuiltboxes.com
Subjects: American short stories
People: Jimmy Mendoza, Tamale Jones, Max Ryland, Antonio