Invite - Pourciau, Glen (University of Iowa Press, 2008)
Short stories
Snub -- Among the missing -- Gone -- Invite -- Water -- The dangerous couple -- Shake -- The neighbor -- How Tommy Lee turned out abnormal -- Deep wilderness
Intense inner and outer monologues resonate through the lives of Glen Pourciau's characters. We hear the voice of a man who will not stop talking, the voice of a man who does not want to talk, the voice of a man stunned into silence by his sudden awareness of a desire he did not know he felt, and the voice of a man struggling to accept his imminent death. Inhabiting an outwardly bland landscape that overlays internal questions and recurring confusion, the narrators of these ten intensely felt stories strive to understand their varied predicaments. Conflicts with neighbors arise, troubling memo