Fiction. At times both funny and heartbreaking, these nine emotionally rich and incisive stories follow characters grappling with the unanswerable question What next? A sudden encounter conjures a failed relationship. A minor league pitcher, in the twilight of a career that never was, tries to divine his future. A young man accompanies his veteran neighbor and father to a V.F.W. a few years after refusing to attend Annapolis. Stoicism and grit belie the vulnerability of people ultimately searching for someone or something to trust in. Though his literary forbearers may be Richard Ford and Ernest Hemingway, Adam Gallari reexamines the masculine with a deftness and a grace entirely his own.
Author City: Exeter UK
Adam Gallari (b. 1984) is an American ex-pat currently working on a novel and pursuing a PhD at the University of Exeter. Originally from New York, he holds an MFA from the University of California, Riverside, and his essays and fiction have appeared in or are forthcoming from numerous outlets, including The Quarterly Conversation, Fifth Wednesday Journal, therumpus.net, TheMillions.com, anderbo.com and The MacGuffin. WE ARE NEVER AS BEAUTIFUL AS WE ARE NOW is his first book.
Reviews and Other Links
Publishers Weekly
Martha McKay Canter at The Rumpus
Author Spotlight on HTMLGIANT
LJ Moore in the San Francisco Examiner
Gabriel Blackwell in The Collagist
interview @ The Story Prize
Sean Rosenberg in NOÖ Journal