Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep

Praise

“The stories in Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep are meant to sit with the reader and digest slowly. Throughout the collection Soto draws the reader into the often overlooked transitional spaces of a character’s life, and while each story is full and complete, the reader will be left hungry for more as Soto leaves his endings open to the possibility of an unending expansive future.”
—Corrine Watson, West Trade Review

“[Soto’s] well-drawn characters with their nuanced battles with grief and hope shine brighter. Haunting and complex.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“An imaginative and otherworldly collection . . . In these well-crafted stories, Soto evocatively shows how the characters are at turns mystified by inexplicable experiences or haunted by burdensome pasts . . . Readers will be enriched by the way this work thoroughly investigates the human heart.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Adam Soto has talent to burn and then some. The stories in Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep are intense, beautifully dense, wonderfully detailed, funny, scary—all this. That rare thing, a thrilling book of stories.”
—Peter Orner, author of Maggie Brown & Others and Love and Shame and Love

“Adam Soto is the metaphysical detective for our dissonant era, and every one of these stories is a new type of ghost he shines a light on, in this portable haunted house of a short story collection. An exhilarating ride, to be read throwback-style: chain-smoking under a pale moon, in black and white.”
—Fernando A. Flores, author of Tears of the Trufflepig and Valleyesque

“Adam Soto’s ghost stories are mostly not literal—but they are haunting. There are so many tricks and feints here that you’ll be working through Soto’s cleverness days later. In this collection of tightly wound but diversely approached stories, Adam Soto unravels the sloppy, conflicted lives of his characters with precision and polish. Each work—some short, others longer—all find a way to compact the breadth of a novel within constraints of the short story. Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep is less an anthology of stories, but an impressive and thrilling accumulation of small universes.”
—Kevin Nguyen, author of New Waves

“Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep is weird in all the best ways possible. These stories show fragments of much larger universes, enticing you with what they give as well as with what they suggest. These tales are plucked from bizarre worlds, from the blood of shadow creatures, from the tears of angels. Let them haunt you.”
—Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home