Monarch: Stories

"Monarch: Stories subverts the reader's common perceptions about love, loss, suffering, and second chances. America's cities, sewers, alleyways, and bars are landscape to their wars, as characters heal and transform under wind turbines and on open roads, in golden cornfields and with the wails of Chicago blues. The characters in this collection suffer and wander; they are marginalized and wounded-they do not fit in. They are heroes shaped by grief and redemption, though not defined by their scars"--