"I love the pulse of Sam Pink's sentences, the way they can hold the gorgeous and the grisly and the hilarious all at the same time. The Garbage Times/White Ibis thrilled me and messed me up, left me feeling a little dazed and a lot changed." -Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel and Find Me
From the freezing alleys of Chicago to the dew-blanketed bayou of Florida. From bouncing drunks and cleaning up puke to biking through the swamp laughing at peacocks. Freeze to thaw. Filth and broken glass and black water backed up in showers; lizards and Girl Scouts and themed birthday parties. A baby rat freed from the bottom of a dumpster becomes a white ibis wandering the wet driveway after a storm. Goodbye, hello, goodbye. It was the garbage times; it was time for something else. A tale of two tales, connected by a mysterious sunlit portal.
Designed with tete-beche binding as a single volume.
- ISBN10 1593766866
- ISBN13 9781593766863
- Publish Date 1 May 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Publisher Counterpoint
- Imprint Soft Skull Press
- Format eBook
- Language English