Inheritance: And Other Stories

By Jarod Powell

In this deeply sardonic debut collection of short stories, Jarod Powell masterfully intertwines the bitter traumas and sweet victories of humanity with a hypnotic style, subversive wit, and a powerful, concrete narrative. A hopelessly dysfunctional family holds a formal debate and fights through the cliche, an agoraphobic teenager finds the gumption to enter the world he observes in a single moment of guttural rage, a homeless man harasses a stranger with his visions of the San Fernando Valley as The Garden of Eden, and in the title story, a high school turns into a Biblical village square when a drug overdose turns a nobody into a mythical being.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1432712187
• ISBN13: 9781432712181
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Outskirts Pr
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.1" x 6.1"