The story’s structure, mirroring the novel’s title, presents two narratives leaning toward each other with an inevitable intersection.
The Miniature Wife – Manuel Gonzales
How to make this strange, cold, cluttered world into something human.
Care of Wooden Floors – Will Wiles
“A room is a manifestation of a state of mind . . . We make our rooms, and then our rooms make us.”
Promising Young Women – Suzanne Scanlon
Scanlon implicates the reader in the same system that has produced these “promising young women,” “career patients” seen by their doctors as projects, fodder for academic papers, or books.
Safe as Houses – Marie-Helene Bertino
The stories in SAFE AS HOUSES read as a combination of rough sandpaper and its smooth result.
The Cardboard House – Martín Adán
In a new edition, THE CARDBOARD HOUSE loses the raw feel of a manifesto.
In Between Days – Andrew Porter
Love that was supposed to last forever doesn’t end, exactly; rather it becomes transmuted into nostalgia for what used to be but is no longer livable.
Down the Rabbit Hole – Juan Pablo Villalobos
Like its pintsize narrator, this novel divulges an unnerving inner darkness beyond its dainty exterior.
A Working Theory of Love – Scott Hutchins
Only in San Francisco, a city living in perpetual danger of the power of the San Andreas Fault, could love be seen as a “territory all its own[,] prone to seismic trickery.”
Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures – Emma Straub
It all happens like a Disneyland ride, one where the reader is buckled into a narrow cart and pushed along on a track past miniature scenes backed by relentlessly tinkling music.