Music Through the Floor
By:Eric Puchner
Published on 2007-07-24 by Simon and Schuster
With Music Through the Floor, Pushcart Prize winner and former Wallace Stegner Fellow Eric Puchner makes an extraordinary debut: a collection of nine unforgettable stories -- strikingly original, fiercely funny, and quietly heartbreaking -- portraying a group of cultural misfits attempting to navigate mainstream America. Lost, teetering on the edge of normalcy, Puchner's characters seek to define themselves in a frequently absurd and hostile world -- a world that threatens to make outcasts of us all. Caught up in loneliness or solitude, they can't quite hear the music of their own lives. In |Children of God,| a young loner becomes the caretaker and companion for two mentally retarded men, seeking solace in their outsider status. |Essay #3: Leda and the Swan| is told in the forlorn, be-nighted, and tragically funny voice of a high school girl who longs more than anything to be loved. In |Mission,| an idealistic ESL teacher is faced with the inscrutable wrath of one of his immigrant students. And in the unsettling |Child's Play,| Puchner explores the price of nonconformity by following a pack of boys wreaking havoc on Halloween. Writing from an impressive range of perspectives -- men and women, children and adults, immigrants and tourists -- Puchner deftly exposes the dark, ten-der undersides of his characters with arresting beauty and precision. Here are people fumbling for identity in a depersonalized world, captured in moments that are hilarious, shocking, and transcendent -- sometimes all at once. Unfailingly true, surprisingly moving, and impossible to forget, these nine stories mark the arrival of a brilliant young writer and one of our most promising literary voices.
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