Books
These are the books written by author Caleb J. Ross. Click each cover to view details of the book, including synopses, praise from readers and other authors, publication details, and additional cover images.
In Suddenly I was a Shark!: My Time with What Remains of Edith Finch, author Caleb J. Ross explores the life-changing impact of this unassuming video game about a young woman’s attempt to understand a curse that has killed every member of her family. By mixing developer interviews, personal stories, and examinations of the game’s many literary inspirations, Caleb delivers a powerful story of personal change via one of the most important walking simulator video games ever made.
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A nonstop thrill-ride down the darkened avenues and through the shadowed alleys of a nightmare town.
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A stirring novel, this extraordinary work plays upon the reader’s willingness to suspend disbelief and turns it on its ear. From the opening imagery set in the incinerator of a beef packing plant through a visit to a roadside museum of body parts through a seemingly interminable trek from a nondescript small town in the middle of the country to Delaware, the novel chronicles the encounters of a narrator who can’t keep his story straight with a cast of drifters many of whom are obsessed in finding their long-lost mothers. – Publisher’s Weekly
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The worst part about becoming a machine is wanting to love but knowing you can’t. The second worst part is trying to love, but accidentally breaking her leg.View the full book page details for As a Machine and Parts
The child he loves. The idea of a child, he’s beginning to understand, is where everything will go wrong.
Stranger Will explores the human urge to reproduce via one man’s struggle to understand his role as a father. As Rob Roberge, author of More than They Could Chew and Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life, says “This is an original—unlike anything you’ve ever read before.”
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Murmurs: Gathered Stories Vol. One brings together nine previously published stories hand selected to best represent the darkness prevalent in much of Caleb J. Ross’ fiction. Deformities, parenthood, childhood, each treated with literary integrity, come together to map the visceral, gut-wrenching side of family life.View the full book page details for Murmurs: Gathered Stories Vol. One
These stories change you, and not just a little bit. Try to forget them, tell yourself they’re not true, but it’s no use. Whether you want them to or not, they’re going with you.” – Stephen Graham Jones, author of Don’t Fear the Reaper and The Only Good Indians
View the full book page details for Charactered Pieces: stories