Monarch

"Superb, original and thoroughly alive with heartbreak and wonder. Tobias is electrifying."—Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of and author of "Full of empathy and rendered in searing, visceral prose, MONARCH shines brightly. In eleven vivid, affecting stories, Tobias turns her careful attention toward the strugglers and strivers among us—the result is heartfelt and immersive."—Kimberly King-Parsons, author of "The stories in MONARCH are raw and gritty and always real. Emily Jon Tobias gives voice to the outsiders, the misfits, and the broken. I can't say enough great things about this debut collection."—Willy Vlautin, author of and "Women's past and present mingle in Tobias's stories where sentences are loaded with momentum and crafted with astonishing descriptions and surprising beauty. Regrets and disappointments haunt forlorn characters in this collection as they push through the pain in needles and whiskey, in babies that float, in the car on the highway with the windows down-maybe all at the same time, forever fleeing but never able. MONARCH is packed with troubles, richly drawn and wrenched from alleys, from mattresses, lest we forget."—Thea Swanson, author of Fiction.