See You in Paradise: Stories

The first substantial collection of short fiction from "a writer with enough electricity to light up the country" (Ann Patchett)

"I guess the things that scare you are the things that are almost normal," observes one narrator in this collection of effervescent and often uncanny stories. Drawing on fifteen years of work, See You in Paradise is the fullest expression yet of J. Robert Lennon's distinctive and brilliantly comic take on the pathos and surreality at the heart of American life.
In Lennon's America, a portal to another universe can be discovered with surprising nonchalance in a suburban backyard, adoption almost reaches the level of blood sport, and old pals return from the dead to steal your girlfriend. Sexual dysfunction, suicide, tragic accidents, and career stagnation all create surprising opportunities for unexpected grace in this full-hearted and mischievous depiction of those days (weeks, months, years) we all have when things just don't go quite right.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 11/04/2014
ISBN: 9781555976934
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.66h x 5.06w x 0.71d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2014 pg. 13
Publishers Weekly 09/08/2014
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2014
Library Journal 10/15/2014 pg. 87
New York Times Book Review 01/25/2015 pg. 22
BookPage 11/01/2014