Laugh-out-loud funny and dripping with style, this debut collection of stories holds a fun house mirror to the everyday lives of characters as empathetic as they are absurd.

From the self-appointed historian of the title piece to the wage slaves of "Our Spring Catalog" and "The Pipe," these are characters you�ve met before. They�re quirky visionaries and misguided dreamers sprung from a world of high school ambitions and misunderstood intentions. Laugh-out-loud funny, absurd, and always human, Jack Pendarvis�s debut collection is the work of a writer of rare comedic literary talent.

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Jack Pendarvis spent much of his childhood and adult life in Bayou La Batre, Alabama and now lives in Atlanta, Georgia. His writing has been published in the Believer, McSweeney s, and 14 Hills, and his stories have been anthologized in Stories from the Blue Moon Caf� II, The Alumni Grill, and the Pushcart Prize anthology.

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