A New York Times Notable Book Best book of the year in the New York Times, Bustle, Time Out, The Atlantic, Slate, Electric Literature\'Funny, sad, scary and beautiful.
Helen Phillips twists the world we know and shows it back to us full of meaning and wonder - luminous and new..
Both chilling and poignant, this novel asks the biggest questions about marriage and fidelity, birth and death.
When one evening her husband Joseph disappears and then returns, offering no explanation as to his whereabouts, her creeping unease shifts decidedly to dread.
As the days inch by and the files stack up, Josephine feels increasingly anxious in her surroundings - the drone of keyboards echoes eerily down the long halls, her boss has terrible breath, and there are cockroaches in the bath of her sublet.
Le Guin If the job market hadn\'t been so bleak during that long, humid summer, Josephine might have been discouraged from taking the administrative position in a windowless building in a remote part of town.
I love it\' Ursula K.
A New York Times Notable Book Best book of the year in the New York Times, Bustle, Time Out, The Atlantic, Slate, Electric Literature\'Funny, sad, scary and beautiful
