You Are Having a Good Time: Stories

ISBN: 0374293864

Author: Barrodale, Amie

Condition: New

Named A Best Book of 2016 by Wall Street Journal, Vulture, Refinery29, Financial Times, and The GuardianIn You Are Having a Good Time, Amie Barrodales collection of highly compressed and charged tales, the veneer of normality is stripped from her characters lives to reveal the seething and contradictory desires that fuel them. In Animals, an up-and-coming starlet harbors a complicated attraction toward her abusive director. In Frank Advice for Fat Women, an ethically compromised psychiatrist is drawn into the middle of a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship. And in The Imp, a supernatural possession ruins a mans relationship with his pregnant wife.Barrodales protagonists drink too much, say the wrong things, want the wrong people. Theyre hounded by longings (and sometimes ghosts) to the point where they are forced to confront the illusions they cling to. Theyre brought to life in stories that dont behave as you expect stories to behave. Barrodales startlingly funny and original fictions get under your skin and make you reconsider the fragile compromises that underpin our daily lives.