"In this powerful novel, Jorge Armenteros takes us deep, deep and deeper still into the mind of a painter who has come to the edge of his cliff. The Book of I's fierce, fresh language buoys us through the many-textured darkness, shoots the whole through with crucial light. Cortazar is an apt analog here. So is Artaud."

- Laird Hunt, author of "Neverhome" and "Kind One," 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

"In a French village, painter Teaston has witnessed a woman's fatal jump off a...

with art by Liselott Johnsson

"A haunting debut by a bold new talent." -Laurie Foos

"In a French village, painter Teaston has witnessed a woman's fatal jump off a nearby cliff. Growing lost in the 'whiteness' of his schizophrenia, he paints out the faces on his canvases, searching for the 'holes where eyes could fall in.' Dipped in the ink of South American surrealists like Julio Cortazar, Jorge Armenteros's The Book of I slowly and achingly unveils Teaston's tormented inner life. For Teaston, 'the existence of normalcy is...