About this book
A dazzling collection of stories about how the familiar can suddenly turn strange.
A guidebook introduces foreign visitors to a recognizable but dreamlike America, where mirrors are haunted and the Statue of Liberty wears a bowler hat. A department-store supervisor must discipline employees who don't smile enough at customers, but finds himself unexpectedly drawn to the saddest of them all. A woman reluctantly agrees to buy her daughter a robot pet, then is horrified when her little girl chooses an enormous mechanical spider for a companion. The characters in these stories find that the world they thought they knew has shifted and changed, become bizarre and disorienting, and, occasionally, miraculous. Told with absurdist humor and sweet sadness, Viral is about being lost in places that are supposed to feel like home.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Smile Report
- On Friendship
- Lucille’s House
- States
- Three Marriages
- A Boy My Sister Dated in High School
- My Daughter and Her Spider
- If You Cannot Go to Sleep
- No-No
- Guided Meditation
- Viral
- Biographies
- Also by Emily Mitchell
- Copyright
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