Product Description: Fourteen-year-old Ellis is getting ready to leave the Southwest for a boarding school in the East. This means leaving behind the only real father he has ever known, Goat Man. Goat Man has been raising a herd of goats all the while teaching Ellis the meaning of stability, caretaking, and commitment...read more

An anthology of short fiction captures the humiliation, depression, angst, growing pains, first romance, embarrassment, and confusion of adolescence in a collection that features contributions by John Barth, Stanley Elkin, AM Homes, Nathan Englander, Amber Dermont, George Saunders, Jennifer Egan, Kevin Canty, Jim Shepard, and other writers. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Depraved and entertaining, a delightful collection of short fiction introduces the misfits and visionaries who embody the ambition and insanity of the American entreprenuer, examining such eccentric, yet lucrative, industries as worm farms, pearl-button making, pornography, and beauty pageantry. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

In a coming-of-age novel from the author of Naked Pueblo, fourteen-year-old Ellis departs from the Southwest to attend boarding school in the East, leaving behind his mother and the Goat Man, the surrogate father figure who has taught him the meaning of stability, commitment, and caretaking. 25,000 first printing.

Contains stories about different types of people, searching for a place to call home, who are connected by the city of Tucson, Arizona. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Sad, funny and perverse - the characters in these short stories are as diverse as the face of modern America. Set in Arizona, the trailer-park dwellers, crystal-reading gurus and disaffected teenagers show that Arizonians have their own way of coping with the emotional connections that shape lives...read more