From the author of the acclaimed novel The Snowman's Children and the award-winning collection The Two Sams comes American Morons, a new collection of dazzling and haunting tales ... Two traveling college students confront their disintegrating relationship and the new American reality in a breakdown lane along the Italian superstrade. A woman chases the ghost of her neglectful father to a vanished amusement park at the end of the Long Beach pier. Two recently retired teachers learn just how much Los Angeles has taken from them. In these atmospheric, wide-ranging, surprisingly playful, and deeply mournful stories, grandkids and widows, ice cream-truck drivers and judges, travelers and invalids all discover—and sometimes even survive—the everyday losses from which the most vengeful ghosts so often spring. "With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These stories are smart, challenging, ripe with feeling, expansive in every way: Horror as it should be writ, and as only the best and most expressive can write it." — Peter Straub, author of In The Night Room To reserve your copy: American Morons