Nothing Looks Familiar Country & Bluegrass - General and meaningless sex -- until

and meaningless sex -- until he begins to crave a kinder form of love

Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an America that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections

Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrayal of a brilliant mind in crisis

Equal parts melody and malaise

Nothing Looks Familiar Country & Bluegrass - General and meaningless sex -- untilIn Nothing Looks Familiar, Shawn Syms' debut story collection, characters from a wide swath of society chart paths from places of danger or unhappiness into the great unknown, each grappling with a central and sometimes unanswerable question: if you fight to change your circumstances, could it be possible to reconfigure your very identity? From bullied kids to meth smoking mothers, characters in dire straits take measures? sometimes drastic ones? to