Fish Cough - by Craig Buchner (Paperback)

About the Book

At the crossroads of considering parenthood, a Portland couple watches a rare meteor shower and then have the strangest year of their lives.

Book Synopsis

This debut novel from acclaimed poet and short fiction writer, Craig Buchner, Fish Cough is punctuated by gallows humor and finely attuned observations of the human experience. American in setting and style, Buchner presents an alluring, uniquely disquieting journey into the dynamics of the modern psyche. Fish Cough is a new breed of novel that blurs genre and tugs at the heart, all while questioning the foundational ideas of the world we live in.

Review Quotes

"Meteorites and great fires, pet squirrels and bottle caps with secret codes, good and evil, drama and comedy, anger and grief and love, yes, mostly love, like the works of George Saunders or Lorrie Moore that depict the warped madness of these modern times as a means for us to see ourselves clearer, Craig Buchner's Fish Cough is a wildly imaginative, deeply thoughtful, and potently-moving riot of a novel." -- Alan Heathcock, author of VOLT and 40