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"Scott Wrobel is an amazingly sharp and gifted writer, and his
debut, Cul
De Sac,
set in a twenty-first century American suburbia of lost dreams and
troubled families, is not only one of
the truest and saddest collections of stories I've ever read, but
also one of the funniest."
--
Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff
and The Devil All The Time
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"Scott Wrobel’s stories are haunting, moving, strangely funny, and
utterly unforgettable. This is a book you will hang on to so you can reread it
and feel the thrill of discovery all over again."
--Jessica Anya Blau, author of Drinking
Closer to Home
and
The Summer of Naked Swim
Parties
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"With Cul De Sac, Scott Wrobel paints a pitch-perfect
portrait of men shouldering
heavy ass burdens with grace and
humor. There are echoes of
Raymond Carver and Larry Brown
here, both in tone and setting,
but the thing Wrobel has most in
common with Carver and Brown is
that all three tell stories that
stick in your gut for a long
time.
--John
Jodzio, author of
If
You Lived Here You'd Already Be
Home
and
Get In If You Want To Live.
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"Wrobel’s
stories of mitigation,
miscommunication, and
dissolution in this nowhere
setting we all know so well, are
acutely punctuated with the
maladies of modern life. They
move from laugh-out-loud comedy
to stifled tragedy easily, and
leave you with the sense that
the world could melt away in a
blink, that we are on the edge
of the void always. I
kept roaring with laughter in
spite of myself."
--
Geoff Herbach, author of the
Miracle
Letters of T. Rimberg
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About the Book
We know the men who populate Cul de Sac from our own
neighborhoods and our own familiar fantasies of the American
good life, yet in Scott Wrobel’s hands their faults and strange
inner minds frighten and delight us. Here are middle-aged men
who deal with parenting, marriage, sickness and dying by
organizing garages, poisoning coyotes, stalking seasonal Eastern
European service workers at family resorts, violating jars of
mayonnaise, and sabotaging houses-for-sale to keep their
neighborhood Caucasian. Cul De Sac is an honest and
empathetic look behind the tailored lawns and powerwashed-perfect
decks of a suburban community to its awkwardly humorous and sad
reality—Cheeverland in a modern Midwestern suburb. Cul de
Sac
provokes, challenges, and
invites us in with nervous laughter. |
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My book of stories, Cul De Sac, will be released by
Sententia Books
on April 20, 2o12. Please stay tuned for
updated
Readings and Events.
Cul-de-sac, n.
\'kul-di-sak
1. a blind diverticulum or pouch
2. a street or passage closed at one end
3. a route or course leading nowhere
French, literally, the bottom of the bag (1738).
"Release Me"
Click the song titles throughout the website to see and hear
spectacular musicianship. These are gifts from Byron, who starred in
"After the Lovin'" in Cul De Sac. Byron lives at the end of the sac and
has a fantastic mustache.
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