Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations

by Xu Xi

Observations of contemporary life that make monkeys of us: this existential disbelief thrums through speculative stories and essays in Xu Xi's latest collection. These 16 short pieces, evenly divided between fiction and nonfiction, are in turn elegiac, satiric, darkly comic, lyrical, even confessional in tone, and traverse the inequities and abuse of power in sex, politics, race history, culture, and language across a disquieting transnational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915531004
• ISBN13: 9781915531001
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Signal 8 Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"