Sightings Stories
Sightings Stories by B.J. Hollars is a debut short story collection published by Indiana University Press on March 25, 2013. This edition features 161 pages and is presented in English. The collection comprises ten thematically linked tales that challenge traditional notions of the Midwestern coming-of-age narrative, showcasing a diverse cast of characters including Bigfoot believers, Civil War reenactors, and grief-stricken clowns.
Readers will find a unique exploration of outcasts navigating their worlds through these stories. The collection includes a family’s contemporary journey along the Oregon Trail, a boy who constructs a brother from a vacuum cleaner, and a sandlot baseball team facing challenges from its Native American neighbors. Additionally, it portrays a high school basketball team contending with Sasquatch on their court. This genre-bending work delves into the peculiar rites of passage associated with growing up in the Midwest, offering a fresh perspective on the complexities of adolescence.
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B. J. Hollars’s debut short story collection offers ten thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert conventional notions of the Midwestern coming-of-age story. The stories feature an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War reenactors, misidentified Eskimos, and grief-stricken clowns, among other outcasts incapable of finding a place in their worlds. In these marvelous stories, we can join a family on a very 21st-century trip along the Oregon Trail, watch as a boy builds a brother from a vacuum cleaner, follow a sandlot baseball team as it struggles to overcome an invasion by its Native American neighbors, and experience how a high school basketball squad takes to Sasquatch roaming its court. This genre-bending collection charts a bizarre pathway through the thickets of life on the road to adulthood. Pushing the limits of realism, these stories capture the peculiar rites of passage of growing up Midwestern.
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