"A brilliant debut." --CHARLES BAXTER, author of The Soul Thief and There's Something I Want You to Do The suspense creeps in and takes hold in seven stories about troubled characters grappling with rare illnesses, menacing chance encounters, sexual awakening, impending natural disasters, and New Age cults. Within these pages, the everyday meets the uncanny as two high school friends go out for one unforgettable night. A boy, haunted by dreams of a catastrophic flood, becomes swept up in an encephalitis epidemic. A hypochondriac awaits her diagnosis at a Caribbean...
"A brilliant debut." --CHARLES BAXTER, author of The Soul Thief and There's Something I Want You to Do The suspense creeps in...