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|title=See You In Paradise

|author=J Robert Lennon

|publisher=Serpent's Tail

|date=November 2014

|summary=''See You in Paradise'' is a collection of mildly diverting short stories from an American author who writes about ordinary people in commonplace work and domestic situations, with an element of the absurd or surreal thrown in to each tale.

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Lennon writes with a relaxed, easy style and his characters are instantly recognisable as people from everyday walks of life, without being in any way stereotypical. Many of the people in these stories are dealing with normal frustrations, and Lennon is cleverly detached enough not to make them individuals that you're obviously supposed to root for (the only exception is the industrialist in the eponymous tale, who is an archetypal capitalist fat cat). There are some very clever characterisations – in ''Weber’s Head'', for example, the narrator is a flawed individual whose opinions of his housemate are gradually revealed to be unreliable and unfair. For me, the most unsettling story is ''No Life'', because it portrays a decent couple at the mercy of people more powerful and influential than them. There is no supernatural or bizarre element at work here, just ordinary characters at the mercy of social power.