Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories

With this collection of short stories, award-winning author Keith Rosson delves into notions of family, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope—once again merging literary fiction and magical realism. In “Dunsmuir,” a newly sober husband buys a hearse to help his wife spread her sister’s ashes. “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 the returning soldier in “Homecoming” navigates the strange and ghostly confines of his hometown, as well as the boundaries of his own grief.

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