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Loves and Other Soul's Malfunctions
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 12 2025
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Loves and Other Malfunctions of the Soul, Gabriel Ibarroa takes readers on a surreal and hilariously heartbreaking journey through the chaotic intimacy of the modern mind. This collection of stories is not simply a book-it's a disassembled heart reassembled with duct tape, sarcasm, and flashes of poetic brilliance.
With a voice both neurotic and profound, Ibarroa's protagonists wrestle with love, memory, loss, and metaphysical bicycle tires. Think Kafka meets Woody Allen at a therapy session, while Cortázar listens from a nearby bench, nodding in existential complicity.
Each story is a small existential explosion. In The Bicycle and the Lightness of Its Tire, a failing inner tube becomes a metaphor for the protagonist's psychological unraveling. In Am I Sleeping With a Quantum Ghost?, eroticism, dreams, and multiverse theory blend into a hilarious, haunting account of longing, delusion, and Schrödinger's lust. Meanwhile, The Existentialist Bread and Love in the Time of Mold showcase the author's unique ability to animate the inanimate, giving voice to crumbs, stains, shadows, and silences.
What binds these stories together is not just their absurd humor or poetic insight, but their refusal to take reality at face value. Each narrative peels away the surface of everyday life to reveal the buzzing, incoherent soul underneath-tender, confused, hilarious, and deeply human.
This is not a book for those seeking tidy conclusions or clear-cut answers. It's for readers who understand that sometimes, the best way to explore the soul is by laughing at its cracks and taking notes from the broken objects we leave behind.
A must-read for fans of metafiction, absurdist humor, and emotionally intelligent chaos.
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