Am I In The Right Place (Pester Ben)(Paperback / softback)

From the extraordinary mind of debut writer Ben Pester comes a book of stories in which the everyday work, parents, friends is not quite what it should be. Taken together, it forms a collection of things we are doing right now, in this lost and terrifying world we are gamely attempting to inhabit. Things like worshipping an imaginary being while trying to be productive; or slowly dying and having nothing to say about it except how tiring it was building the kitchen extension; or having hot martinis with the ambassador in a hotel that ought not to be there. Unsettling, original and occasionally monstrous, these are stories that light the contours of the ordinary world with a shimmering unreality.'A funny, sad, sharp and beautifully disarming collection of stories: a place where the world of the quotidian with its train commutes, work lanyards and office emails, becomes dreamlike, absorbing and wonderfully strange.'- Wendy Erskine, author of Sweet Home'A glorious, shimmering and strange collection. Pester inhabits familiar spaces only to skewer them with a signature style and humour. A must read.'- Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch 'Ben Pester's vertiginous and stunningly weird stories are acts of inversion: office life is rendered terrifying and strange, while elements of cosmic horror - alien lifeforms, menacing and hungry holes - possess an eerie banality. Engaging with these enigmatic variations is less like reading and more like plunging; a funny and disturbi
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