Make Something Up

Twenty one stories and one novella from Chuck Palahniuk

literature's favorite transgressive author, Make Something Up is a compilation that disturbs and delights in equal measure.

In "Expedition," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to Fight Club. And in other stories, the absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In "Knock, Knock," a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments, while in "Tunnel of Love," a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing "relief" to dying clients.

Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; these stories represent everything readers have come