Love Stories: And Other Love Stories

In the world of Love Stories the seams of reality have been subtly loosened. Anteater professors battle impostor syndrome trains search for soulmates and men grow taller and taller until their heads scrape the stars. A frustrated young couple resorts to communicating only through the exchange of exotic fruit until guava is all that matters. An astronaut touches down on a foreign planet only to realize that the alien world mirrors Earth. Brouckaert in this singularly imaginative debut collection evokes a universal yearning a raw desire a pang of nostalgia an ache in your chest that comes when you find yourself cleaved from your lover from your people from the place you call home.