http://store.thelitpub.com/ In American Gymnopédies, Scott Garson probes switching intersections of time and place and consciousness to offer, in fractured aggregate, a nation inside-out. A salesman in Asheville; a teacher in Wausau; a dispossessed woman in Flagstaff; a single mother in Seattle—each shifts toward an instant of focus within a seemingly antique lens, a charmed instrument that Garson employs in acts of conjuration. In these forty-six narratives, made of a prose as radiant as it is spare, we’re given a ranging alt-history, a strange and exhilarating guide to a life we might never have believed we could know.