My debut story collection is here! Order your copy at Malarkey Books!
An extraordinary story collection, First Aid for Choking Victims is both fierce and unsparing in its precision, and deeply tender in its care and watchfulness. Matthew Zanoni Müller renders the most private truths of human longing with electric prose that echoes the oldest of myths.
-Karen Tucker, author of Bewilderness
In his debut solo short story collection, First Aid for Choking Victims, author Matthew Zanoni Müller excavates his characters’ worldviews in bracing detail. A hidden camcorder in a kid’s jacket, the secret dance of a jellyfish, a terrifying ball of static light. Rich in detail and sumptuous atmosphere, Müller evokes the small moments – the changes of light and shadow in a character’s mind, the tectonic shifts and rumblings that break apart an inner world. Taught, bracing, these stories follow characters in regret, grief, religious turbulence, and inner questioning.