Beautiful Days by Zach Williams Paperback Book 9780241644706

A BOOK OF THE YEAR choice in the New Yorker Washington Post and Electric LitDeeply uncanny and hauntingly resonant strange stories about modern America for fans of George Saunders Mariana Enriquez and Shirley JacksonOne of 2024s superlative debuts this writers got talent to burn Washington PostThese stories will change you Jonathan Safran Foer A young family is trapped in a time loop in an idyllic holiday cabin A middleaged man becomes convinced that his disappointing son is an impostor Two brothers take a midnight ride in a golf cart and run into trouble The elderly tour guide at an alien contact site loses control of his guests Meanwhile all around them America is dissolving fragmenting distorting beyond recognition The antiheroes of Beautiful Days are chronic underachievers men lost in their own lives and plagued by loneliness selfdoubt suppressed rage When the worst happens they take to the road crossing the wilderness in stolen cars riding trains to the end of the line or cruising along ruined monorails as the skyline burns Zach Williams stories are haunted by the ghosts of America its lost illusions its dark aspirations its boundless disquieting potential They leak...