{"product_id":"honeymoon-isbn-9780375708008","title":"Honeymoon","description":"The characters in Kevin Canty’s new collection are people we all know. People who are perhaps ourselves, searching, often in the wrong places, for something meaningful, or real, or at least, for a moment, right. Here are couples like Vincent and Laurie, who after beginning an ill-timed relationship, escape for a weekend at the beach, where they confront their inevitable separation. There is also Olive, a recovering drug addict, sent on a mission to help her nephew, who finds herself in an illicit relationship with both him and his problems. And a young boy nicknamed Flipper, sequestered for a summer at a “fat” camp, who finds unexpected comfort in the company and forbidden gifts of a pregnant teenager. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these stories, Canty demonstrates both deep understanding and a powerful grasp of language and continues to set himself apart as a master of the short story.“A very beautiful book.” –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“The language is beautiful, the attraction fatal. . . . [Canty] is a poet among storytellers.” –\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kevin Canty’s stories are short, spare and both beautiful and painful to read.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The ease with which he renders such a vast terrain of lives–from city to wilderness, children to adults, professionals to proles is Canty’s crowning achievement.” –\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Canty\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of the novels \u003ci\u003eInto the Great Wide Open\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNine Below Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Winslow in Love\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the short story collections \u003ci\u003eHoneymoon and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Stranger in This World,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhere the Money Went\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eThe Underworld: A Novel,\u003c\/i\u003e published in 2017. His work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDetails\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGlimmer Train\u003c\/i\u003e.  He currently teaches fiction writing at the University of Montana.Tokyo, My Love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome scenery, then: a sleeping city by the ocean, streetlights and foghorns, a wisp of fog curling down the hills (in fact cigar smoke, blown by a production assistant just off camera). Unbeknownst to the citizens, a group of lit windows in one of the tall towers, busy with buzzers and maps, people shouting in Japanese: the command post. The tiny princesses are kidnapped. The missiles are racing into place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am the thing that happens next.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI feel myself evolving. You of all cities, Tokyo—you must know what this feels like, the little fishing village somewhere near your heart, the layers of houses and shopping and industry accreting, century by century, to form your black pearl.  .  .  .  You are not what you were. You are not what you will be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rockets are gathering in the suburbs, and I am changing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo go from one body to the next, to watch your wings develop out of nowhere, beautiful, spotted wings, to feel the many segments of your abdomen contract and swell, swallowing the hundred tiny legs—too many of them!—and then one morning the new strong legs under you, holding you up. I am beautiful. Your tanks can’t stop me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI know: Two men with mustaches have the princesses locked in a cage somewhere in the city, two near-Americans in business suits, etcetera. The princesses will be fine in the end. They will sing to me again, and I will go back to my island.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut all that is later. All that is plot. This is the moment that I love, this right now: the city sleeping, waiting, my body evolving, everything about to happen and the calm before. I can feel the city, there in the dark, waiting. I can feel how much you want me, Tokyo. Without me, without the thing that is about to happen, there’s no escape from the chain of days, turning clothes into laundry and then washing the laundry, folding the clothes, stacking them away. Who could stand it? Who could love a life like that? Admit it: You know what I’m talking about. The thing inside you that wants a hurricane, a fire a flood, that wants to hear the beat of giant spotted wings, my wings, bearing down on the city, the jets of flame spewing from my mouth and the helpless tiny planes as I bat them to the ground. You want to see the tanks roll into the street, the long sentence of Japanese that translates somehow into the single word: “Fire!” Admit it: That’s what you’re doing here, isn’t it? some tiny homeopathic dose of the hurricane you want, so that you don’t choke on your own boredom. You want tanks and burning buildings, railcars flying, rocketry and gasoline, the prehistoric scream—out of my lungs, Tokyo—that will burst every ear that hears it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is my moment, the moment before. These are my beautiful wings, unfurling. You wait, unsleeping. You wait for me. I am the thing that happens next—to you, Tokyo. Tokyo my love. 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