Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asle..., Adam Soto
Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asle..., Adam Soto
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Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep: Ghost Stories

Author: Adam Soto

Narrator: Christopher Salazar, Arnell Powell, Marisol Ramirez, Shridhar Solanki, Jeed Saddy, Dele Ogundiran

Unabridged: 10 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/04/2022


Synopsis

A collection of short stories moving through time and place, exploring the spaces where we haunt each other and ourselves through our choices, our institutions, and our dreams.

Adam Soto, author of the debut novel This Weightless World, which Robin Sloan called “the social novel for the 21st century,” returns with Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep.

In the title story, a one-armed Harlem Hellfighter goes in search of his specially altered military uniform while Influenza ravages Philadelphia. In “Sleepy Things,” a man is bound to the bedside of his comatose girlfriend who haunts his mother’s
dreams. In “Wren & Riley,” a couple travels to Wyoming to visit a childhood friend who killed her abusive husband. And in “The Vegetable Church,” a pair of Syrian sisters, refugees of the civil war, find themselves at a crossroads in the home of
their European hosts while their dead father whispers to them words of comfort and guidance.

The stories in Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep, strange and unsettling, explore the quiet spaces where the living and the dead alike haunt one another through their choices, dreams, and institutions.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Janelle

This is an interesting collection of ‘ghost stories’ but not in a spooky or gothic sense. They are stories for a dystopian era, the writing is quite dreamy sometimes, often I didn’t realise a character was a ghost until it became obvious. People don’t usually react in a scared way, they have convers......more

Goodreads review by Sky

I’m still trying to pinpoint what exactly kept me reading Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep, but there was something that kept me going until the end. A few of the stories stood out and offered moments that I enjoyed, but overall, many of them felt a bit scattered, which made it difficult for......more

Goodreads review by Chirp

2.75 rounded up. I really wanted to like this book. Desperately so. Not that I want to, but some blame has to go to some of the bookstores I went to that put this in their "Horror" section. Though with the short story collection touting "Ghost Stories" on it, I can't blame them for thinking what I wa......more

Goodreads review by Corrine

Adam Soto’s short story collection Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep gives the reader glimpses into strange worlds not far off from our own that explore the complexity of moving on at the end of things. Whether it’s the end of the world, relationships, or some form of an afterlife, Soto introd......more