Welcome to the quirky, wonderful worlds conjured by Beth Sherman in which a teenager dissects a sheep brain with her high school crush, a retired man volunteers with sloths, and a wife who’s tired of waiting for her marriage to rescue her buys a drawbridge on Facebook Marketplace. Sherman writes about desire and disappointment with piercing honesty and an extra helping of humor. I read this book twice—once to see what happened next and the second time to savor Sherman’s words.

 – Sarah Freligh, author of Other Emergencies and A Brief Natural History of Women

Beth Sherman is a master of the flash form, crafting unforgettable characters with a voice that is sharp, tender, and wholly original. The mundane tilts toward the extraordinary here, revealing unexpected truths about love, loss, and what it means to be human.

—Tracie Adams, author of Not Finished Yet and Our Lives in Pieces

Bring Me Home a Sloth is filled with rich descriptions of our fragile lives, highlighting the different paths we imagine. These twelve brief stories illuminate heartache and obsession, deception and renewal with stunning prose that reads like poetry. An absorbing collection from a skilled and prolific wordsmith.

— Sabrina Hicks, Author of Coyote Girl: Stories