Here Is What You Do

Stories

By: Chris Dennis

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Tanya Eby

A debut short story collection that explores the vulnerability, grit, and complex nature of our humanity from a new, vital queer voice.

A yacht races to outrun a tsunami. A young man jailed on a drug charge forms a relationship with his cellmate that is by turns tender and brutal. A family buys a rural slaughterhouse, and tensions quickly escalate between them and their religious neighbors. A teen raised by his eccentric gay father, a Turkish immigrant, finds his life fractured by violence. A fictionalized Coretta Scott King, surveilled and harassed by the FBI, considers the costs of her life with her husband.

Here Is What You Do is a bravura, far-ranging collection, its stories linked by sorrow and latent hope; each one drills toward his characters' darkest emotional centers. In muscularly robust prose, with an unfailing eye for human drives and frailties, Chris Dennis captures the raw need, desire, cruelty of characters trying to connect with, and consume, each other.

©2019 Chris Dennis (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

what a book!

I've read it twice it's so good! The author really knows how to keep you involved! I'm not biased at all either

A wonderful look at slices of life.

Loved it. I only wish Chris had narrated it himself! I believe that the characters in every story are people I've met and know in day to day life.