Download or read book Gathered Here Together written by Garrett Socol and published by Ampersand Books. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered here together are 22 of Garret Socol'¿¿s finely-crafted stories, by turns darkly humorous and light and zany, and often both at once. The characters populating these stories march slightly out-of-step with the world around them: a housewife who finds her art and revives a faded marriage in the laundry room, a writer who publishes her own suicide handbook, a woman selling baked goods for electroshock therapy. In this collection, Socol brings his wry insight and sensitivity to bear on the madness of contemporary culture, the silliness of everyday life, and illustrates the many ways people, against all odds, keep themselves afloat.