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A wild, inventive ride of a short story collection from a distinctive new American storyteller.The stories in Thomas Pierces Hall of Small Mammals take place at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the intimate and the infinite.A fossil-hunter, a comedian, a hot- air balloon pilot, parents and children, believers and nonbelievers, the people in these stories are struggling to understand the absurdity and the magnitude of what it means to exist in a family, to exist in the world.In Shirley Temple Three, a mother must shoulder her sons burdena cloned and resurrected wooly mammoth who wreaks havoc on her house, sanity, and faith. In The Real Alan Gass, a physicist in search of a mysterious particle called the daisy spends her days with her boyfriend, Walker, and her nights with the husband who only exists in the world of her dreams, Alan Gass.