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Demons in the Spring

By: Joe Meno
Narrated by: Victor Bevine
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This is an Audible IndieFirst selection.

Demons in the Spring is a collection of 20 short stories by Joe Meno, author of the smash hits The Boy Detective Fails and Hairstyles of the Damned.

In these stories, oddly modern moments occur in the most familiar of public places, from offices to airports to schools to zoos to emergency rooms: a young girl refuses to go anywhere unless she's dressed as a ghost; a bank robbery in Stockholm goes terribly wrong; a teacher becomes enamored with the students in his school's Model United Nations club; a couple is affected by a strange malady - a miniature city which has begun to develop in the young woman's chest.

These inventive stories are hilarious, heartbreaking, and unusual. While many of them have never been previously published, others have been featured in the likes of LIT, Other Voices, Swink, TriQuarterly, and McSweeney's.

©2008 Joe Meno (P)2008 Audible, Inc.
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Critic reviews

"The power is in the writing. Mr. Meno is a superb craftsman." (Hubert Selby, Jr.)
"Eclectic, funny, constantly surprising - these are the things a short story collection should be allowed to be, and Joe Meno's Demons in the Spring absolutely is. Add to his rock solid prose and big heart...then you have a rich, unforgettable stew of a book." (Dave Eggers)
"Each of Meno's short stories in this stellar collection explores depression, loneliness, and insanity...Meno's assortment of off-center, morose characters fit seamlessly together....this short story collection succeeds word to word, sentence to sentence, and cover to cover." (Publishers Weekly)
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