THE MINIATURE WIFE AND OTHER STORIES
The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales's first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums with energy and shimmers with beauty. In The Artist's Voice, we meet one of the world's foremost composers, a man who speaks through his ears. A hijacked plane circles a city for twenty years in Pilot, Copilot, Writer. Sound can kill in The Sounds of Early Morning. And, in the title story, a man is at war with the wife he accidentally shrank. For these characters, the phenomenal isn't necessarily special. . . but it's often dangerous.