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How the Moon Works

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HOW THE MOON WORKS
Stories by Matt Rowan

ISBN: 978-1-941462-24-9

Release Date: October 26, 2021

In How the Moon Works, globally underappreciated author Matt Rowan, strives for literary greatness by teaching us all how exactly the moon works and fails heroically. He blames “the establishment,” claiming that this book is his way to “make you all pay,” but really he just hopes you buy multiple copies so he can get that new Schwinn for his kid. 

These stories are, for the most part, manifestations of Rowan’s darkest fears. A product’s best feature is its ability to terrify. Children are subjected to cruel rites of passage in restaurants suspiciously resembling ShowBiz Pizza. A man believes his only chance at salvation is through the reluctant acquaintance of an elder. A tourist trap capitalizes on the perfect simulacrum of the world’s historical idols. Teenagers are reared to hate and kill an unknowable enemy at the urging of muppets. Coworkers willingly give up their humanity to act as unfeeling robots.

Does all that intrigue you enough to want to read How the Moon Works? Matt Rowan hopes so, though he is also satisfied knowing this book has served as an elaborate medium for working out some stuff.

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“I’ve been reading Rowan’s fiction since his debut collection, Why God Why. In his latest, How the Moon Works, I’m seeing the same delicate balance of the very heights of speculative fiction along with a dash of humor that is, well, uncanny. Rowan’s one of the most exciting authors writing today and How the Moon Works is a testament to how far we can go in fiction to find ourselves.” —Michael J. Seidlinger, author of Runaways: A Writer’s Dilemma

 

“How the Moon Works teems with imagination, humor, and moments of unexpected poignancy. This book made me laugh while seeding in me a delicious, creeping, existential dread. Matt Rowan’s stories are gloriously deranged.” —Kate Folk, author of Out There

 

“Matt Rowan’s stunning short fiction artfully disarms the reader, time and time again, with an arresting combination of humor, humanity, and darkness. In How the Moon Works, the reader not only tours the immersive landscapes of severely malfunctioning societies—replete with sinister-but-beloved corporate products, deadly modern labyrinths stocked with murder-bears, mysterious diseases diagnosed by mysterious pathologists, and personality-changing teleportation machines—but also the hearts and minds of earnest characters who, like us, have no choice but to do their best with where they’re at and with what they’ve got. This book will make you want to be a better citizen.” —Joseph Scapellato, author of The Made-Up Man

 

“Strange tales from a vibrantly wrinkled and psychically electrified otherworld. Matt Rowan is what my dad would call out there.” —Ben Loory, author of Tales of Falling and Flying

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