Arvida

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Like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy, Samuel Archibald’s portrait of his hometown is filled with innocent children and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted hous w’s worth of kudos for this book’s nervy, expertly rendered sentences, its polished prose. But what separates Arvida from its peers is the fact that Archibald so thoroughly subverts many of our expectations about what this kind of short story collection can do, or should do, or dares to do. These short stories operate like a dark mirror reflecting the vicious barbarism hidden beneath the staid surface of quotidian small town life. Archibald’s descriptions bridge the [real and the unreal], always incredibly physical—visceral and unsettling….these are stories of stories, what they do, what life becomes