…An engrossing and creative story of the wonders of the unknown with an Icelandic accent.” – Kirkus
… Rosson’s clever, swiftly paced story has more than enough to keep readers turning the pages and wanting to believe. Here he maps a magical journey through the wilds of rural Iceland and into a kaleidoscopic terrain filled with secretly active military bases, and muddied body parts that sully what began as an innocent expedition into the supernatural. “As in his Smoke City, (2017), Rosson offers crisp characterization and surprising twists. Readers will be riveted by this clever, unsettling adventure.” – Publishers Weekly “This well wrought speculative tale is quirky and creepy by turn … the blend of genres, from science fiction to cosmic horror, is masterfully executed. With grace, imagination, and a brazen gallows humor, Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons merges the fantastic and the everyday, and includes new work as well as award-winning favorites.” In “Brad Benske and the Hand of Light,” an estranged husband seeks his wife’s whereabouts through a fortuneteller after she absconds with a cult, and the returning soldier in “Homecoming” navigates the strange and ghostly confines of his hometown, as well as the boundaries of his own grief.
In “Dunsmuir,” a newly sober husband buys a hearse to help his wife spread her sister’s ashes, while “The Lesser Horsemen” illustrates what happens when God instructs the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to go on a team-building cruise as a way of boosting their frayed morale.
“With Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, award-winning author Keith Rosson once again delves into notions of family, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope, with the surefooted merging of literary fiction and magical realism he’s explored in previous novels.
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