Copy cats

"Featuring seven stories and a novella, David Crouse's debut collection depicts people staring down the complicated mysteries of their own identities." "Crouse's stories often involve people trapped on the margins of society, confronted by diminishing possibilities and various forms of mental illness. The men and women in Copy Cats are unwilling and often unable to differentiate reality from fantasy. Cursed with what one of them calls "a pollution of ideas," these are people at war with their own imaginations."--BOOK JACKET.