Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons | Keith Rosson

Shirley Jackson Award Winner

With Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, award-winning author Keith Rosson delves into notions of family, grief, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope, with the surefooted merging of literary fiction and magical realism he’s explored in previous novels.

In “Dunsmuir,” a newly sober husband buys a hearse to help his wife spread her sister’s ashes, while “The Lesser Horsemen” illustrates what happens when God instructs the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to go on a team-building cruise as a way of boosting their frayed morale. In “Brad Benske and the Hand of Light,” an estranged husband seeks his wife’s whereabouts through a fortuneteller after she absconds with a cult, and in “High Tide,” a grieving man ruminates on his brother’s life as a monster terrorizes their coastal town. 

Genre: Collection | Magical Realism | Fantasy

Paperback | 6x9 | 206pp

ISBN: 978-1-946154-52-1 (Paperback)

ISBN: 978-1-946154-54-5 (Ebook)

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