American Morons
by Glen Hirshberg

Description:
Bound in cloth or bonded leather with higher quality endpapers than in the trade hardcover, and signed by Glen Hirshberg on an illustrated limitation sheet.

From the author of the acclaimed novel THE SNOWMAN'S CHILDREN and the award-winning collection THE TWO SAMS comes AMERICAN MORONS, a new collection of dazzling and haunting tales….

Two traveling college students confront their disintegrating relationship and the new American reality in a breakdown lane along the Italian superstrade. A woman chases the ghost of her neglectful father to a vanished amusement park at the end of the Long Beach pier. A pair of lonely, recently retired teachers learn just how much Los Angeles has taken from them.

In these atmospheric, wide-ranging, surprisingly playful, and deeply mournful stories, grandkids and widows, ice cream-truck drivers and judges, travelers and invalids all discover—and sometimes even survive—the everyday losses from which the most vengeful ghosts so often spring.