Harcourt, Inc.
Available: 08/24/06
5.31 x 8 · 176 pages
978-0-15-603081-6
CDN $14.00 · pb

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Third Class Superhero

Charles Yu

In Third Class Superhero, Charles Yu experiments with form and genre to explore the stories we tell ourselves while navigating life. In “Class Three Superhero”—winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Fiction—a would-be good guy must deal with the darkness in his heart. A couple living in the Luxury Car Commercial subdivision in “401(k)” is disappointed when a vacation turns into a Life Insurance/Asset Management pitch.

Yu’s characters run up against the conventions and parameters of their artificial story lines while tackling the terrifying aspects of mothers, jobs, spouses and feelings.

Charles Yu (Los Angeles) is the recipient of the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award.