Little Reef and Other Stories announces the arrival of an original voice in literature. From Key West to Maine, Michael Carroll's debut collection of stories depicts the lives of characters who are no longer provincial but are not yet cosmopolitan. These women and their gay male friends are "B-listers" of a new, ironic, media-soaked culture. They live in a rich but increasingly divided America, a weirdly paradoxical country increasingly accepting of gay marriage but still marked by prejudice, religious strictures, and swaths of poverty and hopelessness. Carroll shows us people stunned by the shock of the now, who have forgotten their pasts and can't envision a future.
About the AuthorMichael Carroll is a writer whose work has appeared in
Boulevard, Ontario Review, Southwest Review, The Yale Review, Open City, and
Animal Shelter.
AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Fiction) 2015 and Triangle Awards (Debut Fiction) 2015.
Book InformationISBN 9780299297404
Author Michael CarrollFormat Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 416g