All the names they used for God : stories

Author

Anjali Sachdeva

Call Number

• FICTION SACH (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2018]

Physical Description

256 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"A haunting, diverse debut story collection that explores the isolation we experience in the face of the mysterious, often dangerous forces that shape our lives Anjali Sachdeva's debut collection spans centuries, continents, and a diverse set of characters but is united by each character's epic struggle with fate: A workman in Andrew Carnegie's steel mills is irrevocably changed by the brutal power of the furnaces; a fisherman sets sail into overfished waters and finds a secret obsession from which he can't return; an online date ends with a frightening, inexplicable dissapearance"--

Contents

• The world by night
• Glass-lung
• Logging lake
• Killer of kings
• All the names for God
• Robert Greenman and the mermaid
• Anything you might want
• Manus
• Pleiades.