Fact Check and More Probing Tales

Description

Twenty-two stories in the tradition of Kafka and Hunter S. Thompson.

An airheaded farm boy is adopted by a bird that squawks, “fact check” whenever the boy gets into an untenable situation. A struggling writer pens a maudlin book to mock his critics, but the joke turns septic when the book becomes a best seller. A stalker, arrested multiple times for harassing celebrities, is one day pursued by an equally-dogged ghost.

Winner of four awards including the Global Book Award gold medal for contemporary fiction.