A Duck, A Monster, A Baby, An Elephant, An Alien and Vaudeville

This long listed title is a collection of six stories done by David Yoder, they all feature an outsider of one type or another. Lou is a duck just trying to get by at his new school, Bordoom is a monster composed of many corpses, a giant naked baby shows up in a small Midwestern town and no one is sure what he wants, Elephano is an elephant waiting tables to pay for his magic habit, Louis is an alien monitoring the melting ice caps and Mr. Ryland and Mr. Yoder want to make it big as vaudevillians but first they have to get along. 254 pages, if you were wondering.