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Cheerful Scapegoat: Fables Peer Pressure Grieving over the death ofWayne Koestenbaum's first book of short fiction: a collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables. In his first book of short fiction a collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables Wayne Koestenbaum takes the gloom and melancholy of our own terrifying political moment and finds subversive solace by overturning the customary protocols of tale telling. Characters and narrators wander into