"At times Monson lapses into gnomic pretentionsness." —The New York Times on Neck Deep & Other Predicaments (2007).

I heard you, New York Times. You wanted more gnomic pretentiousness. Well it took me 13 years, but here you go.

"Ander Monson has always been fascinated by . . . human creatures who unexpectedly shine their light on the rest of us. [He] is an American Kafka . . . The Gnome Stories will stay in your memory long after you have finished the book.”—Charles Baxter

Monson contemplates how suffused with loss, fear, and mortality our everyday lives are. / SF-tinged fare echoing the tone and spirit of Saunders and Vonnegut. --Kirkus

“Like a haunted set of nested dolls, Ander Monson’s excellent short stories open up to reveal the surprisingly looming, gothic spaces that contemporary American life inevitably contains.”—Kelly Link