Elephant Hook and Other Stories (Nunatak Series)
Many of the stories in this unique collection take place in what seems like an exotic, alien world -- the circus. But a clown's make-up is no more jolting to the clown than the last glimpse in a mirror on Monday morning taken by someone going off to work after a weekend in T-shirts and jeans. Exploring relationships in the alein hyperworlds of circus performers as well as the seemingly more mundane worlds of cab drivers and single fathers -- Martin Scherman weaves a magic spell over reader and character alike as he deftly convinces us that the lines between who we are and what we do are both mutable and muddied.