


His work is elegant and troublingly, wonderfully disturbing."-Victor LaValle, award-winning author of The Changeling "Nathan Ballingrud's brilliant fiction brims with imagination, integrity (I do not use that term lightly), and an authentic world-weary dread that bores directly into your heart. " evocative and strangely beautiful."- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite contemporary authors and any time he's got a new book out I run to the front of the line.
