Eternal Night at the Nature Museum - by Tyler Barton (Paperback)

Eternal Night at the Nature Museum is a collection of 21 vivid, rowdy, buoyant stories that will take you on a drift through fractured places in America, populated by unforgettable characters seeking refuge in strange, repurposed spaces.

With precision and care, Tyler Barton crafts settings that feel unequivocally real, packed with dense, finely crafted sentences full of evocative images and poetic gems.

Each story is a wild, bold possibility, always leaving us in the great suspension of what might come next.

The characters are losers, outcasts, and hourly workers across the ever-still landscape of small dusty towns in America, and their stories are full of specific human trouble that makes one want to keep reading, crafted in sentences that bring delight, surprise, and often joy.

With a fresh voice and vibrant imagination, Barton impresses with his ability to ground surreal elements in settings that feel unequivocally real, making them so vivid and believable.

The stories are packed with imaginative details that carry significant weight, impacting mood, atmosphere, and character.

In short, Eternal Night at the Nature Museum is a collection of unforgettable safe havens perfect for crashing, even if only for a night.