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A wild, inventive trip of a brief report collection from a unique new American storyteller.The stories in Thomas Pierce's Hall of Small Mammals happen at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the personal and the infinite. A fossil-hunter, a comedian, a hot- air balloon pilot, parents and children, believers and nonbelievers, individuals in these stories are struggling to understand the absurdity and the magnitude of what it means to exist in a family, to exist on the planet. In "Shirley Temple Three," a mom must make her son's burden-a cloned and resurrected wooly mammoth who wreaks havoc on her house, sanity, and trust. In "The Real Alan Gass," a physicist in search of a mystical particle called the "daisy" spends her days and nights with her boyfriend, Walker, and her nights with the hubby who only exists in the world of her dreams, Alan Gass. Just like the daisy particle itself-"forever locked in a wondering state of living and nonexistence, sliding backwards and forwards between your two"-the stories in Thomas Pierce's Hall of Small Mammals are exquisite, mystical, and inextricably linked. From this enchanting primordial soup, Pierce's speech emerges-a distinct and wonderful testament of the brand new South, melding modern-day concerns with their prehistoric roots to create a entertaining, deeply moving symphony of stories.
