This beautifully illustrated book takes a quirky look at some of the mysteries of urban life. Reassessing the parameters of childhood and of the worlds children inhabit, this is a book that will be read and returned to time and again. At points abstract and sometimes surreal, the short stories and fine art evoke childhood environs that are familiar but where emotion and experience is distorted. 'Tales of Outer Suburbia' transforms the realms of the everyday into the extraordinary. Ideas and imagery both beautiful and disturbing will linger. and the familiar is twisted unsettlingly. Here the emotional can be manifest physically. The term 'suburbia' may conjure visions of vast and generic sameness, but in his hypnotic collection of 15 short stories and meditations, Tan does for the sprawling landscape what he did for the metropolis in The Arrival.
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