Watering Heaven
by Peter Tieryas Liu
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Pub Date Oct 01 2012 | Archive Date Jan 05 2014
Description
What would you do if you found out your girlfriend laid an egg every time she had sex? Who would you be if you were invited to a party in Beijing but had to make up a brand-new identity for six weeks? Peter Tieryas Liu's Watering Heaven is a travelogue of and requiem for the American dream in all its bizarre manifestations and a surreal, fantastic journey through the streets, alleys, and airports of China. Whether it's a monk who uses acupuncture needles to help him fly or a city filled with rats about to be exterminated so that the mayor can win his reelection bid, be prepared to laugh, swoon, and shudder at the answers Peter Tieryas Liu offers in this provocative debut collection.
Advance Praise
"If there was ever literary proof that the need for love and validation drives all human actions, then Peter Tieryas Liu’s haunting collection of short stories would provide it." -Hyphen Magazine
"Watering Heaven is brilliant and one of the best collections I’ve recently read. It’s surreal and funny and beautiful, even heartbreaking at times." -Monkeybicycle, an imprint of Dzanc Books
"A surreal menagerie of short stories that sometimes veer into the realm of magic realism. There is something both slightly haunting yet inviting in these tales of love and loss that are both sensitive and intelligent. He's a writer to look out for." -Sang Pak, Wait Until Twilight
"This debut collection probes the membrane of modern meaninglessness in consistently passionate and original prose. With its inquiry into love's very anatomy, Liu's brave new world comes full-force with a spinning intensity, keeping us on the edge of our postwar, pre-apocalyptic seats. Encore!" -Leza Lowitz, Green Tea To Go
"Expertly attuned to the zeitgeist-the tangle of our social networks, our cubicle culture, the language of science-the brilliant, haunting stories in Watering Heaven are always leading us somewhere deeper yet: that fathomless reservoir of human need and longing." -Tim Horvath, Understories
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9789881553959 |
| PRICE | $2.99 (USD) |
