My Secret Life: And Other Stories

Whether you call the sixteen stories and novellas in My Secret Life magical realism, slipstream, fabulism, or New Weird, you are sure to find each of them fascinating. In these stories by acclaimed master of storytelling Randall Silvis, you will encounter both high and low strangeness in the form of a baby dropping into a suburban swimming pool, a tree turning into a boy, UFO abductees, a giant angel falling to Earth, and various other wondrous tales, some humorous, some heart-breaking, all of them mind-bending. With this collection, Silvis, author of twenty-three previous books, including the internationally acclaimed Ryan DeMarco Mystery Series, returns to the magical realism of his first collection, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize-winning The Luckiest Man in the World, proving once again that he is "a masterful storyteller" (The New York Times Book Review), "a wordsmith extraordinaire" (Booklist), and "a pitch-perfect stylist" (author William Allen), no matter in which genre he writes. Readers are also treated to bonus pieces from the first and second volumes of his four-part memoir. For readers and students of writing alike, this generous collection from one of America's most prolific and versatile authors is sure to strike a chord.