Peter Orner, author of Maggie Brown & Others and Love and Shame and Love That rare thing, a thrilling book of stories." The stories in Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep are intense, beautifully dense, wonderfully detailed, funny, scary-all this. "Adam Soto has talent to burn and then some. Readers will be enriched by the way this work thoroughly investigates the human heart." In these well-crafted stories, Soto evocatively shows how the characters are at turns mystified by inexplicable experiences or haunted by burdensome pasts. "An imaginative and otherworldly collection. " well-drawn characters with their nuanced battles with grief and hope shine brighter. Throughout the collection Soto draws the reader into the often overlooked transitional spaces of a character’s life, and while each story is full and complete, the reader will be left hungry for more as Soto leaves his endings open to the possibility of an unending expansive future." "The stories in Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep are meant to sit with the reader and digest slowly. The stories in Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep, strange and unsettling, explore the quiet spaces where the living and the dead alike haunt one another through their choices, dreams, and institutions. And in “The Vegetable Church,” a pair of Syrian sisters, refugees of the civil war, find themselves at a crossroads in the home of their European hosts while their dead father whispers to them words of comfort and guidance. In “Wren & Riley,” a couple travels to Wyoming to visit a childhood friend who killed her abusive husband. In “Sleepy Things,” a man is bound to the bedside of his comatose girlfriend who haunts his mother’s dreams. In the title story, a one-armed Harlem Hellfighter goes in search of his specially altered military uniform while Influenza ravages Philadelphia. Let them haunt you.” -Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You HomeĪ collection of short stories moving through time and place, exploring the spaces where we haunt each other and ourselves through our choices, our institutions, and our dreams.Īdam Soto, author of the debut novel This Weightless World, which Robin Sloan called “The social novel for the 21st century,” returns with Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep. These tales are plucked from bizarre worlds, from the blood of shadow creatures, from the tears of angels. " Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep is weird in all the best ways possible.
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