Description:
The Incurables explores the mental landscape of a small Ohio town, from the horrors of mental illness to the complexities of romantic and familial love.
Brief description:
Mark Brazaitis is the author of The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award; An American Affair: Stories, winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize from Texas Review Press; a novel, Steal My Heart; and a collection of poetry, The Other Language. Brazaitis's short stories have been cited in the Pushcart Prize annual and Best American Short Stories volumes. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program at West Virginia University.
Review Quotes:
"Mark Brazaitis has written a brilliant, humane, funny, and indelible collection of stories. His world is haunted by a powerful whiff of mortality, and by the love-worn and the lovelorn, but most magically, his Sherman, Ohio, is haunted by the Winesburg, Ohio, of Sherwood Anderson fame--with a twenty-first-century sensibility and flair. A rash of suicides, a washed-up porn star, fathers learning 'Space Karate, ' a wistful ghost, and so much more, The Incurables is kissed by wisdom and humor. It is a well-grown terrarium of a book, a fascinating glimpse into the way we live now." --Randall Kenan, author of A Visitation of Spirits and Let the Dead Bury Their Dead