How They Were Found

"Reminiscent of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Winter War in Tibet in its calm examination and unsettling embodiment of mental and physical extremes, How They Were Found is a dreamer's chronicle of the loss and partial recovery of a world given over to the wrecking ball.

Fierce, unflinching, funny, How They Were Found is just the book we need right now, Matt Bell just the writer.

You're a robot if the stories in Matt Bell’s debut collection don’t exhilarate, frighten, and unalterably change you.

His wild manipulation of form and genre makes the bulk of contemporary fiction feel bloodless and inert in comparison, but it is Bell's recurring arrival at something sturdy and true about human behavior that makes the stories in How They Were Found so rewarding and resonant."