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twist of fates; Matters of love and death intersect in a brilliant new collection.
Byline: Sarah Haight
A supremely down-on-his-luck Midwesterner is chased by lightning across the plains, struck repeatedly by bolts like "the kind you see locking horns with the Empire State Building." A checkout girl, orphaned and widowed by the age of 24, is visited by Jesus in her Michigan apartment. A wasp's nest, blooming in the window of a doctor's summer house, becomes a fixation for the lonely owner. Consumed with both a sense of desertion and almost cosmic purpose, the characters who populate David Means's startling new collection The Secret Goldfish (Fourth Estate) are struggling to resume normal lives after fate-in the form of inclement weather, death, or divorce-deals them a bad hand.
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