Are You Okay? and Other Stories in Bloomington, MN

In Are You Okay?, Alan Rice offers a collection of profoundly human-and often unsettling-tales that explore the unseen forces shaping our lives. A cynical businessman has chance encounter with a panhandler whose bizarre story completely upends his arrogant complacency. A vacationing novelist is confronted by a mysterious little girl who demands that he write her story. Two teenagers make a startling, unexpected connection at a protest rally and a shattering trauma is laid bare. Each story immerses readers in moments of quiet terror, eerie beauty, and psychological depth. Rice's characters rub the edge of their reality-haunted, desperate, seeking, and loving. With sharp prose and a keen eye for the uncanny as well as the beautiful, Rice gives us stories that are sure to engage, amuse, disturb, and, in the end, move us.