Description: From a fearless new voice--a writer in the tradition of George Saunders and Jonathan Lethem--comes a collection of fantastical, gut-wrenching stories of an imagined future epoch crippled by the unfulfilled promises of technology. With a heightened sense of the boundless possibility and lurking doom that Orwell and Huxley once envisioned, each of Matthew Derby's stories provides a glimpse into an intricately imagined world--a world in which clouds are treated with behavioral serum, children are handicapped by their ability to float, all food (including Popsicles) is made of meat--and parodies our contemporary notions of family, government, and technology with razor-sharp wit. The result: a book that is both a brilliant satire and an assault on the senses.
- Matthew Derby joins the ranks of Jonathan Lethem, Donald Antrim, Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson, et al.--a new generation of writers whose edgy, experimental fiction has achieved critical and popular success.
- Derby's dramatic readings of his work have developed a cult following around Providence, where he teaches creative writing at Brown.
- The book's price and format--as a trade paperback original--will appeal to Derby's target readership.
- An important debut that is sure to be widely reviewed, talked about, and celebrated.

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