Exit Zero: Stories

Exit Zero: StoriesTwelve delightfully strange, haunting stories from the acclaimed, oracular author of Beautyland. Death shaped entitieswith all of their humor and strangeness haunt the twelve stories in Exit Zero. Vampires, ghost girls, fathers, blank spaces, day old peaches, and famous paintings all pierce through their world into ours, reminding us to pay attention! and look alive! and offering many other flashes of wisdom from the oracle and author of Beautyland,

The Night We Lost Him is a riveting page-turner with a heartbreaking final twist that you will never see coming

with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk

He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer’s poetry

A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back

And the natural world

And it's the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement

the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of the ugly history of the South with him in his wandering

And don’t miss Take Me with You When You Go

“Like Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

With no money and no prospects

it appears as if she and her garden have both gone to seed

As the storms on Shearwater gather force