PLANET GRIM Out October 12, 2017

Alex Behr’s debut collection, PLANET GRIM, will be out on 7.13 Books in October 2017. Available at fine indie bookstores or through this thunderstorm of commerce.

PLANET GRIM is a vivid, unsettling portrait of people on the gritty fringes of San Francisco and Portland who long for connection in strange, psychologically difficult ways. Her idiosyncratic prose and wholly unpredictable characters will remind readers of the work of Miranda July and Mary Gaitskill.

“My favorite story in Planet Grim was perhaps The Garden, which is about the memory of a fire and warped reality of trauma. It’s a beautiful story about the most surreal moment in a normal person’s life and muted aftermath. The Garden is disarming in its simplicity, yet crackling with underlying tension and things left unsaid.”

— Dead End Follies