In this affecting, harrowing, and darkly hilarious debut collection, Philip Huang explores the topics that compel us and terrify us: sex, grief, and death. The past and the present blur together in ways that only people living at the periphery of reason understand. Like a good sad album, this book opens up wounds, probes the sorrows and strange lives of its characters, and finds transcendence in unexpected places. These are the stories of the walking wounded. These are the stories of the ones who have survived. This is the beauty, this is the pathology, this is the pornography of grief.