Name: Imaginary Museums
ISBN: 9781593765873

Nicolette Polek

In this collection of compact fictions, Nicolette Polek transports us to a gently unsettling realm inhabited by disheveled landlords, a fugitive bride, a seamstress who forgets what people look like, and two rival falconers from neighboring towns. They find themselves in bathhouses, sports bars, grocery stores, and forests in search of exits, pink tennis balls, licorice, and independence. Yet all of her beautifully strange characters are possessed by a familiar and human longing for connection: to their homes, families, God, and themselves.

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Imaginary Museums

Twenty-six surreal miniatures about displacement, mystery, and transformation from an exquisite and original debut voice

Morgan Thomas

While the book was entertaining and readable I found that once I put it down I couldn't remember any particular stories. None seemed to stick out to me. Eventually I remembered some enjoyable ones but struggle to remember them. Maybe that's partly on me. I do remember a story about a man in a grocery store. That one was fun. One about a woman who wonders the forest and at the end we find out that a bird saw the woman several times. Would have loved to read that story from the birds perspective. There was one that seemed to elude to a man in a wheelchair going to heaven but really ends up in a dark room. Once we die, nothingness. That one was probably my favorite.

Imaginary Museums Stories

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