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Good, Brother by Peter Markus is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Good, Brother about?

Peter Markus' Good, Brother is a collection of short-short stories/prose poems that revolve around the lives of two virtually conjoined brothers and the mythical world that they fashion out of fish, mud, stars, the moon and a girl. Through acts of sublimely innocent brutality, they perpetually (and unconsciously) strive to preserve and continually renew their primordial creationsand their own primal child selveswhile living in a town, with a dirty river running through it, that is seen by others as being just a shipwrecked sort of place. "In this spare and simple novel, Markus shapes and reshapes river and mud into a protean world perpetually reasserting itself through rituals that are at once down-home and arcane. There is a whole mythology here, generated privately between two brothers engaged in an always childlike (and for that reason all the more serious) task of creation. Good, Brother is like watching Raymond Roussel and Flannery O'Connor show up to the barn dance wearing hip waders and despite this still managing to outwhirl the best of them." Brian Evenson, author of Altmann's Tongue

Who reads Good, Brother?

Author

Peter Markus

Publisher

New York, N.Y.: Calamari Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780977072354

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

4.22 / 5 (65 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14