Thrillville, USA: Stories Koekkoek Taylor
Thrillville, USA: Stories Koekkoek Taylor A raw and remarkable debut story collection concerning substance abuse, societal alienation, and doomed romance from a writer whose work has appeared in…
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Thrillville, USA: Stories Koekkoek Taylor
A raw and remarkable debut story collection concerning substance abuse, societal alienation, and doomed romance from a writer whose work has appeared in prestigious literary journals including The Paris Review.An amusement park employee overdoses after eating the gel of a fentanyl patch. A sister encounters a dangerous stranger while driving her brother to rehab. Two homeless men discover the body of a drowned woman.
While the action is set largely in the rural Pacific Northwest, the characters' malaise and disaffectedness is endemic of the Ex-lovers seek to rekindle their relationship with the aid of an earthquake.In the nine masterful stories that comprise Thrillville, USA, debut author Taylor Koekkoek depicts Americans living on the margins of society, seeking escape from isolation and underemployment in drugs, booze, and self-destructive relationships.