Along with her husband and two children, she rents a quaint Vermont farmhouse for the summer. The Underneath follows Kay Ward, a former journalist struggling with the constraints of motherhood. With the assurance and grace of her acclaimed novel The Gloaming-which earned her comparisons to Patricia Highsmith-Melanie Finn returns with a precisely layered and tense new literary thriller. With assurance and remarkable dexterity, Kathryn Bromwich’s masterful debut novel is a rich, gorgeously descriptive account of a woman hiding from old ghosts and new in the Italian Alps, while rekindling her own sense of self through nature. In this, its themes could not be more timely." of what it means to inhabit a female body but to reject femininity, and to feel a connection with the natural world that embodies both awe and terror. With all of Sims’s trademark virtuosity, innovation, and wit, Other Minds and Other Stories continues to expand the possibilities of contemporary fiction. And in “The Postcard,” a private detective is hired to investigate a posthumous message that a widower has seemingly received from his dead wife, leading him into a foggy landscape of lost memories, shifting identities, and strange doublings.Ĭerebral and eerie, captivating and profound, these thirteen stories expertly guide us through the paranoia and obsession of everyday horrors, not least the horrors of overthinking what other people might be thinking. A student applying for a philosophy fellowship struggles to project himself into the thoughts of his hypothetical judges, becoming increasingly possessed and overpowered by the problem of other minds. A well-meaning locavore tries to butcher his backyard chickens humanely, only to find himself absorbed into the absurd violence of the pecking order. Coming Soon!įrom the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues, a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection.Ī man lends his phone to a stranger in the mall, setting off an uncanny series of Unknown calls that come to haunt his relationship with jealousy and dread. Sims should be a household name in horror.”įrom the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues, a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection. “ kind of like if Alfred Hitchcock and Brian Evenson raised a baby with David Foster Wallace and Nicholson Baker. Other Minds and Other Stories (FORTHCOMING) a story collection by Pages of Mourning is a stunning achievement, a pioneering and inventive novel that confronts family history, creativity, Magical Realism, and the impact of violence from Mexico’s drug war, by a magnificent new talent in Diego Gerard Morrison. A daring, captivating, darkly funny novel that grapples with uncertainty and loss in a land of violence and superstition, while questioning whether Magical Realism as a genre is capable of confronting the brutal dissonance of a country that awaits the return of the missing while not wholly acknowledging their death.
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