Fly Already

"Etgar Keret's stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple w... (more)

"Etgar Keret's stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but the strange place they do reach is surprisingly human and familiar. "Arctic Lizard," is a post-apocalyptic version of the world where a youth army wages an unending war, rewarded by collecting game prizes. A father tries to shield his son from the inevitable in "Fly Already." In "One Gram Short," a guy just wants to get a joint to impress a girl and ends up down a rabbit hole of chaos and heartache. And in the masterpiece "Pineapple Crush," two unlikely people connect through an evening smoke down by the beach, only to have one of them imagine a much deeper relationship. The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see the world around us and to understand one another. Yet somehow, in these pages, through Keret's deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive."-- Book dust jacket flap. (less)