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Andrew Geyer’s new short story cycle, Siren Songs from the Heart of Austin, was published in January 2010 by Ink Brush Press. The book is now available at major retailers online and in bookstores.
Siren Songs from the Heart of Austin does new and vibrant things with narrative. The twenty-two first person pieces in the cycle interconnect through setting, recurring characters, common themes, shared imagery, and intertwined plots. Aqua Vitae Cafe, in turn of the millennium Austin, Texas, is the central connection–although the settings range from Austin to New Mexico to Guatemala and Honduras.
In one of the six narrative threads, the Prophet Mudcat tries to usher in the Age of Aquarius by returning humankind to the water. In another, a young Latina hunts her monter’s killer while her grandfather tries to win the love of the murderer’s grandmother– a case of love at first sight delayed for decades. Annie and Barkeep attempt to deal with death, autism, and the difficulties of the food and beverage business–and find love along the way. Another thread features Dr. Joseph Jasmine, a down-on-his-luck young professor moonlighting as a waiter and trying to hold his marriage together. And then there is Kurt, an Austin twenty-something trying to leave behind his love troubles and start a new life as a stranger in a strange land–but as he discovers, the distance between the past and the present is more than a matter of miles . . .
Under Consideration
- Dixie Fish (novel).
In Progress
- Lesser Mountains (story cycle)
- So Close Yet So Far Out (novel)
- Renovation (chapbook)
Upcoming Appearances
- Sunday, July 11, 2010 from 2:30 to 4:30 pm: Booksigning at the New Augusta Headquarters Library, 902 Greene Street, Augusta Georgia