CARDINAL AND OTHER STORIES - Tecno-Libro

A man returning a tuxedo suddenly follows a parking lot attendant home. a volunteer recovery worker finds himself re-enacting a deadly fire. a husband parses the meaning of his wife's online banking password. a hack musician travels to a German math institute. Post-Facebook, post-subprime crisis, and post-prosperity, the fearlessly deadpan characters in Alex Higley s debut collection navigate the bleak and surreal suburbs from Phoenix to Chicago with minimal instincts for self-preservation and with quietly explosive results. Stylish, perfectly controlled, and pleasurably shocking, Higley s brilliantly subversive portraits of a lost generation reconfigure and reinvent the increasingly complex relationships between art, life, and the people we love. .