Paul Kerschen's virtuosic debut dives into mythologies from around the world and brings back strange treasure. By turns lyrical, funny, enigmatic and harrowing, these nine stories leap with audacity and grace across styles and settings, from ancient Greece and Palestine to the border towns and office parks of today. A soldier returned from Iraq is haunted by the vision of a giant holding the world on his shoulders. A dying writer creates a secret dictionary and receives a divine visit. A migrant worker in the Southwest confronts the deadly emptiness of the desert. The labors of Hercules, the resurrection of Lazarus and the founding of Rome are given startling new tellings. The Drowned Library is in a class all its own, and introduces a remarkable new writer. "In The Drowned Library, Paul Kerschen samples from a variety of mythologies, from Greek to Judean to modern Babylonian (i.e., San Fran- ciscan), to create a polyvocal collection of impressive, atonal stories. The writing is...

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