The Family Unit and Other Fantasies is the debut collection of acclaimed Edgar Award-winning author Laurence Klavan.
A superb group of darkly comic, deeply compassionate, largely fantastical stories set in our jittery, polarized, increasingly impersonal age.
Whether it’s the tale of a corporation that buys a man’s family, two supposed survivors of a super-storm who are given shelter by a gullible couple, an erotic adventure set during an urban terrorist alert, or a nightmare in which a man sees his neighbourhood developed and disappearing at a truly alarming speed, these stories are by turn funny and frightening, odd and arousing, uncanny and unnerving.
The Family Unit and Other Fantasies is the debut collection of acclaimed Edgar Award-winning author Laurence Klavan.
A superb group of darkly comic, deeply compassionate, largely fantastical stories...