A collection of adult bedtime stories.

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Literature & Fiction

Otto, Lon

United States

Coffee House Press

Lon Otto's new collection of short fiction, A Man in Trouble, is a very urban book, centered on an inner city neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota. Its stories leave that city at times—for outstate cabins and trout streams, for the South Dakota Badlands, for a tenement rooftop in Havana, Cuba—but A Man in Trouble is rooted in city soil, rocky with the history of diverse people living close together. The stories wrestle with the complexities of family, race, community, social and personal history, and the natural world that is a part of the city, yet also stands outside of it, waiting for us with a terrible patience.

A Man in Trouble: Stories

Literary

Brighthorse Books

The Flower Trade is about a couple trying to heal the wound of unfaithfulness by moving with their young children from imperial America to peaceable little Costa Rica, where forces of desire and nature and the backwash of international politics sweep over them all.\nThis gripping and darkly funny novel is about a family torn between the hunger for love and acceptance and the thirst for freedom and independence.\nHoping to rescue their marriage by making a fresh start, Monica and Ted flee with their young children to peaceable and exotic Costa Rica-jungles, cloud forests, a failing flower farm.\nAs the family members struggle to find their place in this perilous sanctuary, forces of desire and nature and the backwash of international conflicts sweep over them all.\nTed finds the work of saving the flower farm complicated by criminal and political entanglements. Nine-year-old Stephen becomes best friends with the son of wealthy, horse-and-dog-raising, gun-owning, communist-hating expatriates. Monica falls in love with the enigmatic uncle of one of Stephen's Costa Rican classmates. Valerie, four, pursues her own blithely terrifying agenda.\nThis contemporary family drama, spiked with mystery and danger, is a vivid and powerfully emotional literary adventure.

The Flower Trade

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A Man in Trouble: Stories

The Flower Trade