Description: Garnering Advance Praise From the likes of Ron Carlson, Mark Richard, & Jennifer Egan, Adam Johnson's Emporium marks the debut of a startling new voice in American fiction. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler raves, "Adam Johnson is the most exciting young writer I've ever read. . . . He gives extraordinary fictions that are at once universal & dazzlingly original." The voices that inhabit Adam Johnson's debut collection are all on intimate terms with loss. Their worlds are dyed by the indigo of loneliness & the invisible ink of abandonment. Yearning for connection, all of these characters seek meaning in landscapes made uncertain by the voids where parents & lovers should be: a father searches a darkened zoo for his troubled son; in a condemned Kmart, a girl bares her bulletproof vest to the aim of her boyfriend's pistol; a physicist pines for an astronaut trapped on the moon. In other stories, a cancer victim controls a satellite, a sniper trains his scope on the girl of his dreams, & a young woman waits for an Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms agent to kick down the doors to her heart. Through thrilling prose & fearless scenes, Johnson shows that Christian power-lifters & depressed robots are no more surreal than fathers who vanish or mothers who waste away.

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