Award-winning writer Laurence Klavan's newest collection of stories features twenty darkly comic and largely speculative tales. People deal with aging parents, a world out of kilter, and their own arrested development today and in the near-future, as Klavan weaves together threads of humanity and strangeness to dizzying and heartfelt effects. Adult Children is a fascinating glimpse into the uneasiness of today and the possibility of tomorrow. "I have this secret addiction to the short stories of Laurence Klavan. They are full of unexpected joys and leave me feeling terribly uneasy and blissfully satisfied." -John Guare, Tony Award winner, author of Six Degrees of Separation "A playwright, graphic novelist, mystery writer, and an admired short story writer, Laurence Klavan has long enthralled audiences with his extraordinarily fertile imagination, insight, and style. " -T. J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt "Laurence Klavan uncovers the places you didn't know exist, the gaps between everyday life and existential horror, where the disconnect between reality and the weird operates its quiet and subtle magic." -Maxim Jakubowski, author of Just a Girl with a Gun "Disturbing, surprising, and unflinchingly intimate, Laurence Klavan's stories make the mundane bizarre and are absolutely engrossing." -Danica Novgorodoff, author of The Undertaking of Lily Chen "Wonderfully strange tales-cunningly written-eerie and satiric by turn-often evoking tremendous pathos." -David Greenspan, Obie Award winner, author of The Myopia Laurence Klavan is the Edgar Award-winning writer of The Cutting Room and The Family Unit and Other Fantasies, as well as co-writer of graphic novels and plays, including the Obie Award-winning Bed and Sofa. His short work has been widely published in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, Conjunctions, Vol. I Brooklyn, and elsewhere. He lives in New York City with his wife, the writer Susan Kim.