May 4, 2019
Mark Mayer's debut story collection, Aerialists (Bloomsbury), attempts the high-flying act of conveying the state of contemporary America via a circus theme. The stories depict and allude to lions, strongwomen, acrobats, and ringmasters, and Mayer renders the cast in all its complexity....
Despite the poverty and divorce and dead elephants and murder clowns, the America portrayed here is not a simple, nasty, broken place. It’s a land where there’s still the surprisingly optimistic possibility of arriving at unity and light.
