PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection 2025, Finalist
A Debutiful "Most Anticipated Debut Book of 2024"
One of Electric Literature's Most Exciting Debut Short Story Collection of 2024
Named a Best Book of 2024 by Debutiful and Electric Literature
The stories in The Man in the Banana Trees take place in the past, present, and future—from the American Gulf South to the orbit around Jupiter. We meet teachers and students, ghosts and aliens. An ice cream consultant in the year 2036 predicts a devastating flavor trend and a disgruntled New England waiter investigates a mysterious tanker crash. Although wildly varied in setting, length, and genre, a thread of the fantastic unites these stories, as characters struggle to understand that thing lurking at the edge of their perception: something sinister, or maybe—miraculous.
- 160 pages
- English
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The Man in the Banana Trees
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for The Man in the Banana Trees
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Rickey
- The Unicorn in Captivity
- At the Moment of Condensation
- The Observer’s Cage
- Yellow Ball Python
- The Midden
- How We Became Forest Creatures
- Reentry
- En plein air
- The Wedding Table
- Mouse Number Six
- The Man in the Banana Trees
- Midnight Revolt at Bertrand’s Year-Round Christmas Store
- In the Style of Miriam Ackerman
- The Pantheon of Flavors
- Local Specialty
- The Disgrace of the Commodore
- Tiger on My Roof
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Series List
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