The Life Story of a Chilean Blob and Other Matters of Importance

With wildly imagined characters and jarringly unexpected circumstances these stories exist in a kind of literary twilight zone. Yet they go beyond merely the creepy and strange the odd and sometimes absurd at times exhibiting a keen authorial understanding of human nature and a Kakfaesque pathos for the human condition. The dialogue crackles and the tales delight and the reader cannot help but be drawn into the painstakingly crafted mise-en-scène with its parade of fully rendered characters. In the end the reader now mesmerized is left with the inevitable task of finding his or her way out again.