Likes

In nine stories that range from the real to the unreal, strange to familiar, funny to frightening, Likes explores the full range and contradictions of our current moment. Through unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars, capitalist shell games, and the Instagram posts of a twelve-year-old, these stories of friendship and parenthood, celebrity and obsession, race and class and the passage of time, form an engrossing collection that is both otherworldly and suffused with the charged hum of everyday life.

For readers of Joy Williams, George Saunders, Lauren Groff, and Deborah Eisenberg, Likes helps us see into our unacknowledged desires and, in quick, artful, nearly invisible cuts, exposes the roots of our abiding terrors and delights.