The Geiger Counter: Raised by Wolves and Other Stories - Softcover

Geiger, Matt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595984968 ISBN 13: 9781595984968

Publisher: Henschelhaus Publishing, Inc., 2016

Synopsis

His little sister joins the circus. His parents buy a nerdy horse. He's surrounded by hundreds of men dressed up as Ernest Hemingway. He tries to order a monkey through the mail. And now his baby is eating dog food. 

Matt Geiger's award-winning stories reveal the sublime in the mundane and the comical in the banal. There is existential dread. There is festivity amid detritus. There are moments of genuine introspection on what it means to be human. And it's all laugh-out-loud funny when told by a humorist who is determined to live an examined life, even if he's not always entirely sure what he's looking at.

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Review

"Matt Geiger is a writer of deft humor and exceptional insight. By turns poignant and hilarious, his witty, empathetic observations of fatherhood, family, and community evoke laughter and touch the heart in equal measure." - New York Times Bestselling Author Jennifer Chiaverini "Matt Geiger's work is brilliant, varied and heartbreaking as the best works of Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, and Grizzard. Okay, mostly Grizzard. Except without the ex-wives. But it's funny stuff, really, and it's filled with genuine heart." - Alex Bledsoe, Author of The Hum and the Shiver "Geiger's writing is a thrilling discovery. You feel as though you're standing in a queue somewhere and all of a sudden you chat up the stranger next to you, who you realize inside of three sentences is just a fascinating, ridiculously fun individual. His work is simply brimming with wit and insight. A truly modern American storyteller!" - Kirsten Lobe, Author of Paris Hangover

Edition details

• Publisher: Henschelhaus Publishing, Inc.
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1595984968
• ISBN 13: 9781595984968
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232