THE FAMILY UNIT AND OTHER FANTASIES
A new short story collection, from Chizine! See "My Works" for more!
"A playwright, graphic novelist, and mystery writer, Laurence Klavan has long enthralled audiences with his extraordinarily fertile imagination, insight, and style. He is also an admired short-story writer. The Family Unit brings together his best work, reminding us of the pleasure of unplugging, putting your feet up, and living someone else's life for a while."
—T.J. Stiles, author of the Pulitzer-winning The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Custer's Trials: A Life on the New Frontier of America
"I have this secret addiction to the short stories of Laurence Klavan, which sneak up on me at odd moments in little magazines and small presses. Attention, all! Give these stories big magazines and big presses. They are full of unexpected joys and always leave me feeling terribly uneasy and blissfully satisfied."
--John Guare, Tony Award-winning author of Six Degrees of Separation and The House of Blue Leaves
"These are wonderfully strange tales – cunningly written – eerie and satiric by turn – often evoking tremendous pathos."
--David Greenspan, five-time Obie Award-winning author of The Myopia
"Disturbing, surprising, and unflinchingly intimate, Laurence Klavan’s stories make the mundane bizarre and are absolutely engrossing."
--Danica Novgorodoff, author of The Undertaking of Lily Chen
"Laurence Klavan knows all too well that the world is changing too fast to offer us much in the way of shelter. To remind us of this, he’s written an impressive collection of stories—some playful, others tender or sobering, all of them shrewd and surprising and wise."
---John Dalton, author of The Inverted Forest and Heaven Lake
"Laurence Klavan uncovers the places you didn't know exist, the gaps between everyday life and existential horror, where the disconnect between reality and the weird operates its quiet and subtle magic."
--Maxim Jakubowski, Editor and Author
"A masterful, unnervingly funny collection set in a society with no place to hide: in other words, our own."
--Irina Reyn, author of What Happened to Anna K. and The Imperial Wife