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Juan Martinez


Best Worst American

Best Worst American

Juan Martinez

These are the best Americans, the worst Americans. In these stories (these cities, these people) there are labyrinths, rivers, wildernesses. Voices sound slightly different than expected. There's humor, but it's going to hurt.

In "On Paradise," a petshop manager flies with his cat to Las Vegas to meet his long-lost mother and grandmother, only to find that the women look exactly like they did forty years before. In "The Spooky Japanese Girl is There For You," the spooky Japanese girl (a ghost) is there for you, then she is not.

These refreshing and invigorating stories of displacement, exile, and identity, of men who find themselves confused by the presence or absence of extraordinary women, jump up, demand to be read, and send the reader back to the earth changed: reminded from these short stories how big the world is.

Table of Contents:

  • Roadblock
  • On Paradise
  • Domokun in Fremont
  • Customer Service at the Karaoke Don Quixote
  • Your Significant Other's Kitten Poster
  • Well Tended
  • Errands
  • Liner Notes for Renegade, the Opening Sequence
  • The Spooky Japanese Girl Is There for You
  • After the End of the World: A Capsule Review
  • Forsaken, the Crew Awaited News from the People Below
  • Northern

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