[CW-Grad] Fwd: Tod Goldberg's new book

[D Charles Whitney]

Tod Goldberg's soon-to-be released Other Resort Citiies (Amazon says  
the publication date is Oct. 1, but Tod says it'll be next week) has  
garnered a favorable blurb from Booklist.

  Goldberg is director of the Palm Desert MFA program.

> Menace and mayhem brew beneath the finely crafted surface of
> these magnetic short stories of American mania and despair.
> Goldberg draws on his crime-fiction chops (Living Dead Girl,
> 2002) to portray refugees from failed attempts at middle-class
> normalcy seeking freedom and revenge in the overdeveloped
> deserts of the American West. Goldberg’s disgruntled
> characters get up to no good in Palm Springs, Las Vegas, and
> various gated communities just begging for defilement. A
> lonely, no-longer-young cocktail waitress struggles to
> understand her missing Russian adopted daughter. A former
> sheriff and cancer survivor returns to the strange, toxic,
> devouring Salton Sea, where he lost his first wife. A man
> converts his fancy home into a Starbucks after the
> disappearance of his second wife, and one wonders just how
> insane he truly is. Goldberg pulls out all the stops in
> “Mitzvah,” a tale about an ersatz rabbi and a temple-centered
> money- and body-laundering scheme. A divorced father kidnaps
> his kids; a family is found slain on a mountain. These are
> eerie, obliquely compassionate, darkly humorous, and ensnaring
> stories of misery and catharsis. — Donna Seaman


D Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair
Department of Creative Writing, 4119 INTS
U of California, Riverside CA 92521
951.827.6076    FAX 951.827.3619
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