Why Visit America
Stories
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 354 pages ; 25 cm
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
ISBN:
9781250237200
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Baker | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |