Karan Mahajan talks with Adam Ehrlich Sachs
That Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s caustic and absurdist story collection is being released in time for Father’s Day resembles nothing more than a joke you might find in the collection itself. Sachs, who is thirty and has written for Hollywood, is a newcomer to fiction, but it’s hard to imagine a more assured debut: Each of its 117 father-and-son parables is saturated with sadness, cruelty, and, of course, humor.
That Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s caustic and absurdist collection Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables, and Problems is being released in time for Father’s Day resembles nothing more than a joke you might find in the collection itself: A well-meaning father (here, the publisher) misinterprets the son’s book (a work of emotional terrorism aimed at both fathers and sons) as an act of love and exalts it within a stifling tradition of filial affection (Father’s Day). Dark hilarity ensues.
Sachs, who is thirty and has written for Hollywood, is a newcomer to fiction, but it’s hard to imagine a more