I am the ghost here : stories / Kim Samek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Samek, Kim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American--21st century.

Short stories, American.

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

203 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The Dial Press, [2026]

Summary:

Twelve women confront the mounting existential terrors of modern life in this absurd, wryly hilarious debut story collection. A woman's limbs disappear into "the cloud" during wildfire-induced power outages. A lonely DoorDasher accidentally becomes the star of someone else's reality show, forced to resolve her fraught relationship with her immigrant mother for the narrative. Succumbing to a widely denied pandemic, a gymnastics coach must carry her heart around in a Mason jar, using her disability to become an influencer. Two chronically single, chronically ill people become soulmates, only to discover their meeting was algorithmically orchestrated by ad tech. Other dramas unfold as icebergs melt and island-sized trash heaps burn. Threaded with sharp social commentary, these stories question the engineering of human connection through technology, social media, and reality television. Warm, endlessly strange, and filled with dark yet hopeful humor, I Am the Ghost Here casts familiar crises of contemporary life in a wholly unique light, offering a pathway towards our shared humanity even as reality comes crumbling down.

Contents:

I am the ghost here

Egg mother

Everything disappears when you're having fun

Trash heap hero

Return

The sharpest knife

Sven

Muscle to muscle, toe to toe

Another toad in the feely box

The garbage patch

The MILF hotel

The cloud.

ISBN:

9798217153572

OCLC:

1531468842