A.G. Pasquella's Welcome to the Weird America brings together three of his brilliant, fabulist novellas, each of which is filled with strange language and extraordinary surprises. In Why Not a Spider Monkey Jesus?, written like a comic-book adventure without the images, a talking chimpanzee becomes a televangelist. In NewTown, the author's love letter to science fiction, a teenage boy named Sammy joins a motley band of rebels intent on overthrowing...