The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas [Paperback]

I love the pulse of Sam Pinks sentences, the way they can hold the gorgeous and the grisly and the hilarious all at the same time.The Garbage Times/White Ibisthrilled me and messed me up, left me feeling a little dazed and a lot changed. Laura van den Berg, author ofThe Third HotelandFind 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 t?te-b?che binding as a single volume.

Praise forThe Garbage Times/White Ibis
Chicago Review of Books, One of the Best New Books of May 2018
LitHub, One of the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
One of Dennis Cooper's Favorite Books of the Year

The novellas are hilarious and unabashedly honest in showing how bizarre life is, how unpredictable people are, and yet how each person craves love, dignity, freedomthe fundamental needs we all share. . . . There is a mysterious momentum at work in the voice-driven narrative, a Murakami-like invisible hand that guides these characters with a purpose to press on. . . . His stories are unique and true and impossible to put downwhat more could anyone want? Taylor Larsen,Los Angeles Review of Books

The Garbage Timesare followed, almost giddily, by the up-and-away ofWhite Ibis. And in this book, Pink has done something so new, so different, that Im struck by what a stroke of genius it was to put the Chicago book right up against it for contrast . . . The FloridlƒE