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Why visit America : stories

Call Number

  • FICTION BAKE (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020.

Physical Description

354 pages ; 25 cm

Summary

"The citizens of Plainfield, Texas have had it with the broke-down United States. So they vote to secede, rename themselves America in memory of our former country, and happily set themselves up to receive tourists from their closest neighbor: America. Couldn't happen? Well, it might, and so it goes in the thirteen stories in Matthew Baker's brilliantly illuminating, incisive, and heartbreaking collection WHY VISIT AMERICA"--

Contents

  • Fighting words
  • Rites
  • The transition
  • Life sentence
  • A bad day in Utopia
  • Testimony of your majesty
  • The sponsor
  • One big happy family
  • Appearance
  • Lost souls
  • The tour
  • Why visit America
  • To be read backward.

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