First published 2006
Reality fractures and reforms in these interconnected tales. Characters slip between worlds where the familiar becomes strange and the impossible feels inevitable. A woman discovers time moves differently in her kitchen than in her garden. A child finds doorways that lead to places that shouldn't exist. An artist paints scenes from lives she's never lived. Each story pulls readers deeper into spaces where the rules of physics bend and break. Lanagan writes characters who must navigate these shifts without maps or guides. They learn to trust their instincts when logic fails them. The boundaries between dreams and waking dissolve. Memory becomes unreliable. Identity shifts like sand. These are stories about transformation and the courage it takes to let go of certainty. They explore what happens when people discover the world is far stranger and more fluid than they imagined.
Genres: short-stories, literary-fiction, fantasy, magical-realism
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: alternate-worlds, unreliable-narrator
224 pages · Library Binding · Eos