Bang Crunch (Vintage Contemporaries)

A debut collection of nine quirky short stories captures the collision between the mundane and the fantastical as ordinary people are caught in the middle of unusual situations, from a girl with Fred Hoyle syndrome whose age expands and contracts like the universe, to a support group for people with benign tumors that begins to suspect that their medical woes are caused by their meekness. Original. 17,500 first printing.