"Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize"--Dust jacket

A collection of stories that follows a bewildered bartender, a grieving beautician, a jilted urban planner and others as their lives unravel in unexpected ways, revealing primal urges and raw emotions against the backdrop of a fractured, overwhelmed America

Tourist -- Dramatist -- Fetishist -- Artist -- Terrorist -- Mixologist -- Gerontologist -- Pastoralist -- Cultist -- Futurist -- Insurrectionist -- Therapist -- Cosmetologist -- Optimist