Save me, stranger : stories
Call Number
- FICTION KROU (OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Flatiron Books, 2025.
Physical Description
209 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"From Edgar Award-winning author Erika Krouse, a visceral, dazzling collection of stories set across the globe, about characters desperate for salvation ... From the coldest town on earth, to a sex shop in Bangkok, to a haunted bed and breakfast in the Rockies, we meet characters at hinge moments. A runaway fights for her future while driving an ice cream truck in gang territory; a cleaning woman investigates the teenager who died in her stead; an Alaskan terminal patient discovers new life in helping others die. This collection explores the borderlands between humor and hurt, community and self, and hope and despair, redefining what it means to survive. Scalpel-sharp, unsparingly funny, and achingly wise, Krouse's expansive stories build to unforgettable emotional catharses, as these men and women must decide how far they are willing to go to save each other-and themselves"--
Contents
- The pole of cold
- The piano
- North of Dodge
- Eat my moose
- Save me, stranger
- When in Bangkok
- The standing man
- Jude
- Fear me as you fear God
- I feel like I could stand here with you all night and it would be the worst night of my life
- The blue hole
- Wounds of the heart and great vessels.