Book description
Blackfeet author Stephen Graham Jones brings readers a spine-tingling Native American horror novella. Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his…
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1 author picked Mapping the Interior as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I have never read a Stephen Graham Jones book that I didn’t like, and this book is one of my favorites. This meditative and elegiac novella is a time-bending story about loss, family, cycles of generational trauma, and the many complicated ways in which we repeat the mistakes of our parents, whether we want to or not.
At the end of its 130 pages, I felt as though I had been shot through the heart in the best way possible.
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