Books written by Kevin Brockmeier

  • The Truth About Celia
    The Truth About Celia

    He suspects they are the brainwork of Rudy Miller, former mayor Tuck Miller's grandson, since Tuck Miller, though more than a century old, is also running for the open seat on the city council, and Rudy Miller is working as his campaign ...

  • Things that Fall from the Sky
    Things that Fall from the Sky

    A rainbow of fat plastic rings littered the silver gray carpet, and a grandfather clock ticked against the far wall. She sank onto the sofa, crossing her legs. “Now,” she said, beckoning him to sit beside her. “I'm Lisa. Lisa Mitchell.

  • The Illumination: A Novel
    The Illumination: A Novel

    As we follow the journey of the book from stranger to stranger, we come to understand how intricately and brilliantly they are connected, in all their human injury and experience.

  • Electric Literature No. 5
    Electric Literature No. 5

    Technical Advisor Eve Asher, rachel Boyadjis, Taylor Bruce, matthew J. Doyle, Charles Logan, Halimah marcus ...{ Interns Readers: Lois Bassen, mackenzie Brady, Leah Clark, martin Cloutier, Dan Coxon, nora Fussner, Erin Harte, ...

  • The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel
    The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel

    From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between.

  • The Illumination
    The Illumination

    All over the world, pain is manifesting itself as light. Cuts and bruises blaze and flash. Arthritic joints glow. Injured troops emit radiant white shards into the desert night. On the news, they're calling it 'The Illumination'.

  • The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
    The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories

    These tales are by turns playful, chilling, and philosophical, paying homage to the genre while audaciously subverting expectations. The ghosts in these pages are certain to haunt you well after you've closed the book"--

  • A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
    A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade

    With the same deep feeling and oddly dreamlike precision that are the hallmarks of his fiction, the acclaimed novelist now explores the dream of his own past and recovers the person he used to be. From the Hardcover edition.

  • The Brief History of the Dead
    The Brief History of the Dead

    In an afterlife world inhabited by the recently departed who remain in the memories of the living, Marion and Phillip Byrd fall in love again, while on Earth, their daughter, Laura, is stranded alone in an Antarctic research station.

  • The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
    The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories

    the Human's bravery , you hide from him ; equal to , you terrify him , and may send him fleeing to the square of your choice ; higher than , you possess him , and may add his Ghost Points to your tally . Seven : If you land on a square ...

  • Things that Fall from the Sky
    Things that Fall from the Sky

    Unexpected humor and tenderness intertwine with loneliness and desire to create a whimsical ambience throughout the stories ofThings That Fall from the Sky. In “These Hands,” a male babysitter who...

  • The Truth About Celia
    The Truth About Celia

    The Truth About Celia is a profound meditation on grief and loss and how we carry on in its aftermath.

  • The Brief History of the Dead
    The Brief History of the Dead

    Each has a different story to tell, but their accounts have one thing in common - it was their final journey. For this is the city of the dead. And the link between this city and Laura's journey lies at the heart of this remarkable novel.

  • The Brief History of the Dead
    The Brief History of the Dead

    From the author of the widely praised "The Truth About Celia" comes a mesmerizing new work that imagines the world of the afterlife and its stark relation to the world of the living.

  • Ghosts and Speculation: from The Ghost Variations
    Ghosts and Speculation: from The Ghost Variations

    Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered—and met with a multitude of answers. “Ghosts and Speculation,” an excerpt from Kevin Brockmeier’s ...

  • The View From the Seventh Layer
    The View From the Seventh Layer

    Once again, in this new collection of fiction, Brockmeier shows us a fantastical world that is intimately familiar but somehow distant and beautiful.

  • Things that Fall from the Sky
    Things that Fall from the Sky

    Achingly beautiful and deceptively simple, Things That Fall from the Sky defies gravity as one of the most original story collections seen in recent years.

  • City of Names
    City of Names

    Howie Quackenbush gets a mysterious book that allows him to transport anywhere in town by just saying the destination's name. But soon Howie thinks there is an ulterior motive behind the unusual gift. Full-color illustrations.

  • The Illumination
    The Illumination

    Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Seattle Times, The Kansas City Star, and Philadelphia City Paper What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination begins.