Deeply uncanny and hauntingly resonant - strange stories about modern America for fans of
George Saunders Mariana Enriquez and Paul Beatty'A brilliant debut' Jeffrey Eugenides
'Beautiful disquieting profound in the true meaning of that word ' Hari Kunzru 'These stories
will change you' Jonathan Safran Foer A young family is trapped in a time loop in an idyllic
holiday cabin. A middle-aged man becomes convinced that his disappointing son is an impostor.
Two brothers take a midnight ride in a golf cart and run into trouble. The elderly tour guide
at an alien contact site loses control of his guests. Meanwhile all around them America is
dissolving fragmenting distorting beyond recognition. The antiheroes of Beautiful Days are
chronic underachievers: men lost in their own lives and plagued by loneliness self-doubt
suppressed rage. When the worst happens they take to the road - crossing the wilderness in
stolen cars riding trains to the end of the line or cruising along ruined monorails as the
skyline burns. Zach Williams' stories are haunted by the ghosts of America - its lost illusions
its dark aspirations its boundless disquieting potential. They leak through the fabric of
reality and out into the void beyond. And they reach ever-hopeful toward a moment of
connection that might pull a body back from the brink.
