A gripping, frightening, and beautiful novel about what it means to be human, about what it means to be fully alive, and to live whole-heartedly.

STEVEN POLANSKY’S fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, Glimmer Train, New England Review, and elsewhere. His short-story collection, Dating Miss Universe, won the Sandstone Prize and the Minnesota Book Award. He lives with his wife and daughter in Wisconsin.