Welcome to Weird America
Welcome to Weird America
P. Thompson
, Marilyn Stanley
, Sebastian Schulman
, Dawn Macdonald
, Erika Sager
, LJ Law
, Jude Castillo
, Shayla Bradley
, Barry Kazimer
, Natasa Ilic
, Linda Leitch
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joe Mitchell
, Christopher Rossignol
, Dani Kat
, Sandra Perry
, Dan Varrette
, Andrea Gillespie
, Mary Therrien
, Florence Tremblay-Béland
, Colleen Coco Collins
, Noelle Walsh
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Jenn Moore
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Sahhara Leckie
, Patricia Johnson
, Cathi McLean
, Chris Carvalho
, Melissa Kohlman
, Elaine Baptie
, Emmet Matheson
, Jen Bailey
, Hoda Montazeri
, Leah Paulgaard
, Andrea Pole
, Phyllis VanDusen
, Emma Sim
, Meghan Whyte
, Alex Henderson
, Randi Ann Doll
, Carl Scott
, Rachel Edmonds
, Charles Leblanc
, Rodney Cross
, Benita Hartwell
, Megan Brodie
, Kim Cappellina
, Susan Terendy
, Deb Philippon
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Linda Hall
, Peter Halasz
, Rebecca Dixon
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Christopher Evans
, Evelyn Kulchar
, Susan Jang
, Heather Belliveau
, Yolande Thivierge
, Laurie Burns
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Maria Mclean
, Melissa Poremba
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Natalie Mudri
, Janice Cournoyer
, Meradith Anderson
, ilona storie
, Lynn Andrews
, Heather Chong
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
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A.G. Pasquella’s Welcome to the Weird America brings together three of his brilliant, fabulist novellas, each of which is filled with strange language and extraordinary surprises. In Why Not a Spider Monkey Jesus?, written like a comic-book adventure without the images, a talking chimpanzee becomes a televangelist. In NewTown, the author’s love letter to science fiction, a teenage boy named Sammy joins a motley band of rebels intent on overthrowing the bungling admiral of a huge spaceship. And in The This & the That, Pasquella takes us back to the old weird America, an America of hucksters and hobos, cartoons and carnivals.
From questions about money and God to environmental collapse, to the intersection of humanity and technology, A.G. Pasquella tackles complex subjects with beautifully surreal prose and a deep delight in the tradition of weird fiction. These mesmerizing, upending stories will have readers setting off on a fascinating journey down an unknown road with no destination, or end, in sight.
