Pardon Our Monsters

By Andrew Hood

Andrew Hood's debut collection heralds a young talent with an irresistible style and merciless eye. These unapologetic stories deal with an assortment of foolish self-destructive small town anti-heroes. They are unlikely odes and elegies for human shabbiness.A newly-wed conjures a ghost in an attempt to contact her absent husband. A seventeen year old is blackmailed into buying drugs for his English teacher. A tumescent young Blue Jay's fan and his tumor-addled sister are swept up in the tempest of the Blue Jay's 1989 run for the World Series. An estranged stepmother and stepson embark on a pilgrimage to the Michael Jackson trial.Hood's cleverly wrought lyrical prose is the perfect foil for a prevailing lack of forgiveness, which becomes the overriding monstrosity of each story. Every character wants only to be pardoned, but will not, themselves, grant it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155065232X
• ISBN13: 9781550652321
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Esplanade Fiction
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.5"