A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception. Here, self-deception is a means of justifying our most inhuman impulses-whether we know it or not.
"Evenson's little nightmares are deftly crafted, stylistically daring, and surprisingly emotional."
Kirkus Reviews
"These stories are carefully calibrated exercises in ambiguity in which Evenson (Windeye) leaves it unclear how much of the off-kilterness exists outside of the deep-seated pathologies that motivate his characters."
Publishers Weekly
"To read Evenson is to be privy to a precise, vivid, brilliant unpicking of the everyday-and its others."
