The Museum of Future Mistakes
Description
In this award-winning collection, James R. Gapinski turns the familiar into the uncanny, where tenderness can curdle into the grotesque and beauty may arrive wearing the mask of derision. Across inventive, magical-realist stories, characters confront grief, desire, and identity as their bodies—literal and metaphorical—become sites of transformation: a city remakes itself in the image of a lost brother, two dinosaur outcasts search for empathy while surviving the weight of old wounds, and an intimate visit spirals into a surreal exchange of parts. With sharp lyricism and fabulist narrative twists, these tales explore how love and loss take root in the body, how memory can wound or bloom, and how we learn to live with the selves we inherit. For readers drawn to the surreal emotional precision of Carmen Maria Machado and the playful strangeness of Kelly Link, this is a book that keeps reinventing what a story can do—right up to the last page.
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paperback
BOA Editions
Published Oct 7, 2025
ISBN: 9781960145864
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First Published
2025
Language
eng
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