AMERICAN MORONS
Hirshberg’s new collection of tales promises to dazzle and haunt readers. Two traveling college students confront their disintegrating relationship and the new American reality in a breakdown lane along the Italian superstrade. A woman chases the ghost of her neglectful father to a vanished amusement park at the end of Long Beach pier. Two recently retired teachers learn just how much Los Angeles has taken from them.

In these atmospheric, wide-ranging, surprisingly playful, and deeply mournful stories, grandkids and widows, ice cream-truck drivers and judges, travelers and invalids all discover – and sometimes even survive – the everyday losses from which the most vengeful ghosts so often spring.

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