Fly already : Stories

Summary: From a "genius" ( New York Times ) storyteller: a new, subversive, hilarious, heart-breaking collection. "There is sweetheartedness and wisdom and eloquence and transcendence in his stories because these virtues exist in abundance in Etgar himself... I am very happy that Etgar and his work are in the world, making things better." —George Saunders There's no one like Etgar Keret. His 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 always surprise, entertain, and move . . . In "Arctic Lizard," a young boy narrates a post-apocalyptic version of the world where a youth army wages an unending war, rewarded by collecting 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 so little of the world around us and to understand each other even less. Yet somehow, in these pages, through Etgar's deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive. Audiobook table of contents: "Fly Already", read by Rob Shapiro “One Gram Short”, read by MacLeod Andrews “The Next-to-Last Time I Was Shot Out of a Cannon”, read by John Rubinstein “Todd”, read by Kirby Heyborne “Tabula Rasa”, read by John Rubinstein “Car Concentrate”, read by Rob Shapiro “At Night”, read by Karissa Vacker “Windows”, read by Kirby Heyborne “To the Moon and Back”, read by MacLeod Andrews “GooDeed”, read by John Rubinstein “Crumb Cake”, read by Rob Shapiro “Dad With Mashed Potatoes”, read by Karissa Vacker “Arctic Lizard”, read by MacLeod Andrews (Email from Michael Warshavski to Sefi Moreh), read by Rob Shapiro (Email from Sefi Moreh to Michael Warshavski), read by Kirby Heyborne “Ladder”, read by John Rubinstein (Email from Michael Warshavski to Sefi Moreh), read by Rob Shapiro (Email from Sefi Moreh to Michael Warshavski), read by Kirby Heyborne “Yad Vashem”, read by Rob Shapiro (Email from Michael Warshavski to Sefi Moreh), read by Rob Shapiro (Email from Sefi Moreh to Michael Warshavski), read by Kirby Heyborne “The Birthday of a Failed Revolutionary”, read by John Rubinstein (Email from Michael Warshavski to Sefi Moreh), read by Rob Shapiro “Allergies”, read by Kirby Heyborne (Email from Sefi Moreh to Michael Warshavski), read by Kirby Heyborne “Fungus”, read by Rob Shapiro (Email from Michael Warshavski to Sefi Moreh), read by Rob Shapiro “Chips”, read by MacLeod Andrews (Email from Michael Warshavski to Sefi Moreh), read by Rob Shapiro “Home”, read by John Rubinstein (Email from Sefi to Chief Dept. of Rational Species Study), read by Kirby Heyborne “Pineapple Crush”, read by MacLeod Andrews “Evolution of a Breakup”, read by Rob Shapiro