God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna Wells Hardback John Wiley & Sons

God, the Moon, and Other MegafaunaAuthor(s): Kellie Wells\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268102258, 978-0268102258\nSynopsis\nKellie Wells is a writer of startling imagination whose \""phantasmal stories,\"" Booklist says, \""shimmer with a dreamlike vibrancy.\"" God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna, Wells's second collection of short stories and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, is populated with the world's castoffs, cranks, and inveterate oddballs, the deeply aggrieved, the ontologically challenged, the misunderstood mopes that haunt the shadowy wings of the world?s main stage. Here you will find a teacup-sized aerialist who tries to ingest the world's considerable suffering; a lonely god growing ever lonelier as the Afterlife swells with monkeys and other improbable occupants; a father fluent in the language of the Dead who has difficulty communicating with his livin.