Disruptions: Stories

"Master of the short story Steven Millhauser unearths the surreal lurking under the mundane surface of the American suburbs in his 10th collection. Each of these 18 fabulist stories painstakingly constructs a world that looks much like our own, until something odd disrupts it: In one, a fad for climbing ever-taller ladders takes over a town; in another, a community of regular humans shares space with 2-inch-tall counterparts. A sense of strangeness lingers long after the final page."