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Jessica Anthony
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Friday Mar 26, 2010 (7:30pm)
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Jessica Anthony’s The Convalescent is the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia and also, somehow, the story of 10,000 years of Hungarian history. Anthony, the inaugural winner of McSweeney’s Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, makes an unforgettable debut with an unforgettable hero: Rovar Ákos Pfliegman - unlikely bandit, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant. Chris Adrian's most recent book is A Better Angel. In this inventive collection of stories, he treads the terrain of human suffering - illness, regret, mourning, sympathy - in the most unusual ways. A bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead him back to his dead brother. A boy tries to contact the spirit of his dead father and finds himself talking to the Devil instead. A ne'er-do-well pediatrician returns home to take care of his dying father, all the while under the scrutiny of an easily-disappointed heavenly agent. He is also the author of The Children’s Hospital, first published by McSweeney’s. The Children’s Hospital is the story of a hospital preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water, and a young medical student who finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny.
